Suggested extra reading This collection of links does not have any specific order. What is Artificial Intelligence , John McCarthy, Stanford University. From here to human-level AI , John McCarthy, Stanford University. Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence , a panel at the 1996 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, Oregon. Reasoning with Cause and Effect , a research excellence lecture by Judea Pearl, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.
Human beings use symbolic processes to solve problems, reason, speak and write, learn and invent.
Over the past 45 years, cognitive psychology has built and tested empirical models of these processes. The models take the form of computer programs that simulate human behavior. Why people think computers can't , written by Marvin Minsky , Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Programs with Common Sense , John McCarthy, Stanford University. On Seeing Robots , written by Alan Mackworth , University of British Columbia.