Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation Joseph Weizenbaum ebook
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ISBN: 0716704633, 9780716704638
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Today, anyone with a flawed human judgment. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. €ask Him to protect all innocent people from punishment for the crimes of others.” Isn't this the human condition? Computers that are fed the right rules can, in principle, calculate ideal chess variations perfectly, whereas humans make mistakes. 1: Federal spending relative to the size of the economy is not, Congressional Budget Office reports show, spiraling out of control once the temporary impact of economic recession is factored out of the calculation. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. UK Sceptic says: July 15, 2009 at 1:11 am. Computer Power and Human reason. Is there still a place for human judgement? From web search to marketing and stock-trading, and even education and policing, the power of computers that crunch data according to complex sets of if-then rules is promised to make our lives better in every way. Freeman & Company, 1976.[↩]; Torvalds, Linus, and David Diamond. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. Federal spending relative to the Instead, it mostly uses computers to apply fixed formulas for the purpose of taking dollars from one set of pockets (current wage earners) and depositing them in another set of pockets (former wage earners). In his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Weizenbaum criticized systems that substituted automated decision-making for the human mind.