Much of GOFAI research and documentation predates the internet, or at least is underrepresented on it. Please list anything interesting you know of.
Some of my collection:
---------------- Legacy (symbolic A.I.) -----------------
Ashby, R. (1956). An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman & Hall Ltd
- mechanism, information, biological systems
- early attempt to grasp what would soon be called Artificial Intelligence
Biermann, A. (1990). Great Ideas in Computer Science. MIT Press
- overview of computers from transistors to programming to mathematical theory
- architecture, knowledge representation, algorithms, functions
Boden, M. (ed) (1989). Computers and Thought. MIT Press
- collection of explorations in cognitive science by various authors
Rich, E. and Knight, K. (1991, 1983). Artificial Intelligence. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
- thorough GOFAI text book, covering terminology, logic, search, expert systems, symbolic & statistical reasoning, and more
---------------- Modern (neurological theory of mind) -----------------
Hawkins, J. et al. 2016. Biological and Machine Intelligence.
Release 0.4. Accessed at:
- ‘living’ documentation for the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) model
- HTM was a ‘theory of mind’ that has been expanded into Thousand Brains Theory
Hawkins, J. (2021). A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. Basic Books
- massive bestseller that offers a very different path to A.I. than generative LLMs do
- see thousandbrains.discourse.group for much more information on the OSS project
Clay V., Leadholm N., Hawkins J. (2024). The Thousand Brains Project: A New Paradigm for Sensorimotor Intelligence.
Accessed at: [2412.18354] The Thousand Brains Project: A New Paradigm for Sensorimotor Intelligence
- a detailed report on the current thinking of this project
Logarithms are a crucial advance in computation generally. This is the best explanation and history I’ve seen:
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The ENIAC programmers
