Giant Brains, or, Machines That Think
By Edmund Callis Berkeley
Length9h 21m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The subject of this book is a type of machine that comes closer to being a brain that thinks than any machine ever did before 1940. These new machines are called sometimes mechanical brains and sometimes sequence-controlled calculators and sometimes by other names. Essentially, though, they are machines that can handle information with great skill and great speed. And that power is very similar to the power of a brain. These new machines are important. They do the work of hundreds of human beings for the wages of a dozen. They are powerful instruments for obtaining new knowledge. They apply in science, business, government, and other activities. They apply in reasoning and computing, and, the harder the problem, the more useful they are. Along with the release of atomic energy, they are one of the great achievements of the present century. No one can afford to be unaware of their significance."
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length9 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE The Subject, Purpose, and Method of this Book
9Chapter 8 RELIABILITY—NO WRONG RESULTS: BELL LABORATORIES’ GENERAL-PURPOSE RELAY CALCULATOR
2Chapter 1 CAN MACHINES THINK? WHAT IS A MECHANICAL BRAIN?
10Chapter 9 REASONING: THE KALIN-BURKHART LOGICAL-TRUTH CALCULATOR
3Chapter 2 LANGUAGES: SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING INFORMATION
11Chapter 10 AN EXCURSION: THE FUTURE DESIGN OF MACHINES THAT THINK
4Chapter 3 A MACHINE THAT WILL THINK: THE DESIGN OF A VERY SIMPLE MECHANICAL BRAIN
12Chapter 11 THE FUTURE: MACHINES THAT THINK, AND WHAT THEY MIGHT DO FOR MEN
5Chapter 4 COUNTING HOLES: PUNCH-CARD CALCULATING MACHINES
13Chapter 12 SOCIAL CONTROL: MACHINES THAT THINK AND HOW SOCIETY MAY CONTROL THEM
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6Chapter 5 MEASURING: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’S DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER NO. 2
14Supplement 1 WORDS AND IDEAS
7Chapter 6 ACCURACY TO 23 DIGITS: HARVARD’S IBM AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE-CONTROLLED CALCULATOR
15Supplement 2 MATHEMATICS
8Chapter 7 SPEED—5000 ADDITIONS A SECOND: MOORE SCHOOL’S ENIAC ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR
16Supplement 3 REFERENCES
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