... reasoning system, based on a kind of mathematics, could encode all human thought and be used to solve every sort of problem. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was sure that such a system existed, and only needed to be discovered. The idea still exists today - the history of recent artificial intelligence is full with stories of systems that seek to explain logic inside computers.4 From 1800 on, the philosophy ... of reason picked up speed. George Boole proposed a system of "laws of thought," Boolean Logic, which uses "AND" and "OR" and "NOT" to establish how ideas and objects ... might ma...

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... biologically observable" (McCarthy 2003. Sv "Basic questions"). The emphasis of Artificial Intelligence concerns itself with mapping 'intelligence', in a computed environment in terms of studying the problems the world presents. Founded by Alan Turing in 1947, research into the programming of computers became a primary concern, rather than the building of computers - which lead to the first novel ideas concerning 'robotic' beings ... (McCarthy 2003. Sv "Basic questions"). Today, the ultimate goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make computer programs that can solve the problems of the w...

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