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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation Joseph Weizenbaum ebook
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Format: djvu
Page: 315
ISBN: 0716704633, 9780716704638

Computers that are fed the right rules can, in principle, calculate ideal chess variations perfectly, whereas humans make mistakes. From web search to marketing and stock-trading, and even education and policing, the power of computers that crunch data according to complex sets of if-then rules is promised to make our lives better in every way. I have read the 1976 edition of the book Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum – From Judgement to Calculation, although it has been re-published (and presumably updated) in 1993. By mid 70s, new computer crime laws and privacy had been enacted in America and Europe. 1976: A book named 'Computer Power and Human Reason' was published by Joseph Wiezenbaum, which is still considered as the classic of computer ethics. The 1976 article “From Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgment to Calculation” made some interesting predictions that seem very possible for our near future. Is there still a place for human judgement? Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. Today, anyone with a flawed human judgment. The subtly of those dangers is captured beautifully in former MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum's great book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. Joseph Weizenbaum (1976), Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Freeman.