УДК 004.896
Clifford Pickover. Artificial Intelligence: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
Vladimir I. Kirko
Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafieva
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5638-7940
Corresponding author e-mail: director.nifti@mail.ru
Annotation
The author’s opinion on the publication of the book “Artificial Intelligence” by Clifford Pickover is presented. The characteristic of Clifford Pickover as a well-known author of popular science books about mathematics, computer science, physics, astronomy is given. Clifford Pickover is a renowned inventor and author of science fiction. He is also known as the creator of new mathematical concepts that attract the attention of modern people. For example, he coined the mathematical term “vampire number”. The idea, structure and main content of the book “Artificial Intelligence” by K. Pickover, which was published in Russian in 2021 (in English – in 2019), is described in detail. K. Pickover’s book contains many interesting and even funny factors on the history of artificial intelligence. The author’s opinion about which human discoveries should be included in this chronology is important.
Keywords
Artificial intelligence, history of artificial intelligence, automatons, neural networks, Pickover.
References
1. Pickover Clifford A. The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection. Sterling, 2011. – 528 р.
2. Pickover C.A Visualizing Biological Information. World Scientific, 1995. – 240 p.
3. Пиковер К. Искусственный интеллект. М.: Синбад, 2021. – 224 с.