<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thanks to all of you. Adrian, what I want is to be able to understand how AIs think. I got as far a nested DO loops but never wrote a complicated program. In my days you took your data (punched cards) to the center and they wrote the program and ran it. Fortan V was the last one I knew anything about - and BASIC..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">As far as statistics, I can do factor analysis (and don't trust it too much), analysis of variance, and particularly regression analysis, as well as all the lower things. All in a people experiment context.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So I want to understand AI from a psychologist's point of view. Are we trying to teach them how to think like us? DO they? I am fairly up on cognitive psych, and can understand the parallels that may exist.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">People are so fuzzy and complicated and most things are centered around probability, whereas AI seems so cut and dried and one answer and no probability. But likely it is as complicated as the computer in Pratchett's Discworld where you get 'OUT OF CHEESE ERROR" that no one understands.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I"ll read the free stuff and take it from there. bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:45 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 15 March 2016 at 19:07, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
> So - if you know of some AI for Dummies kind of thing, or better, AI for the<br>
> intelligent adult, then please make a recommendation for me, and I will buy<br>
> it and read it and pester you with higher level questions!<br>
><br>
> I have books on the implications of AI, like Bostrom's book.<br>
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</span>There is an AI for Dummies!<br>
It is free and only about 70 pages.<br>
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Book Review here:<br>
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Chapter Headings here:<br>
<<a href="http://www.missqt.com/artificial-intelligence/free-dummies-book%E3%80%90practical-artificial-intelligence-for-dummies%E3%80%91/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.missqt.com/artificial-intelligence/free-dummies-book%E3%80%90practical-artificial-intelligence-for-dummies%E3%80%91/</a>><br>
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Get the free book here:<br>
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