Computer power and human reason

steps toward the mechanization of thought

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Joseph Weizenbaum: Computer power and human reason (1975, W. H. Freeman)

English language

Published Jan. 5, 1975 by W. H. Freeman.

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a barnacled treasure

Often rambling, ranting, and rigorous in odd measure, still a strong critique of computers-substituted-for-intelligence-AI. Computers ought not do some things we will come to believe they are capable of: through the instrumentalist and reductionist narrowing of rationality (and history) to what is computable and recordable; mistaking analogies and models of humans as information processors; and compulsive, addictive, and imperialist closing off of multiple and incommensurate perspectives.

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Subjects

  • Computers.
  • Computers and civilization.
  • Programming (Electronic computers)