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.
How Intelligent is Deep Blue?, by Drew
McDermott, Yale University.
[This is the original, long version of an article that appeared in
the May 14, 1997 New York Times with more flamboyant title.]
Computer programs as empirical models in cognitive psychology: Herbert Simon, the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University. 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.
Immobile Robots: a driving force for profound social, environmental, and economic change. HAL-9000 and Solaris are two examples of immobile robots (large-scale organisms).
HAL's legacy,
16 chapters of reflections on "2001: A Space Odyssey".
The Chapter 2 is
Scientist on the set: An interview with Marvin Minsky, it covers
M.Minsky's reflections on AI in 1960s.
SOLARIS: Stanislaw Lem -- Andrey Tarkovsky.
Where is AI Heading? Nils Nilsson: "Eye on the Prize", Postscript (262K) (Stanford University).
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.
When Robots Meet People: Research Directions In Mobile Robotics written by Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University.
Logical vs.Analogical or Symbolic vs. Connectionist or Neat vs. Scruffy, written by Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
What has AI in Common with Philosophy?, John McCarthy, Stanford University.
Strategic Directions in Artificial Intelligence. Edited by Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Thomas Dean (Brown University).
Asimov, Isaac: "Robot Visions" and "Robot Dreams", there are
several paperback editions.