The Sciences of the Artificial

The classics are fabulous.

So to me, a book that got me through the whole field was a short book by Herbert Simon called The Sciences of the Artificial, which I thought was a beautiful read at the foundations of the goals of understanding what it means to build systems that are working with other systems and with people.

in an intelligent manner to define intelligence.

Again, it would be a blast to the past on that front.

My gift is a quote from Herbert Simon, who may not be on our top of our minds today, but back in the day, a very influential figure in the world of design.

who is the author of a book called The Sciences of the Artificial.

There we go.

I'll get my words straight today.

Um, yeah, I was a math major at the University of Virginia, and, uh, I mean, I loved studying math, so elegant and, and beautiful, and seriously considered trying my luck, um, as a mathematician.

But when I was a, a junior at Virginia, I read this book by Herb Simon, one of the founding fathers of AI, called The Sciences of the Artificial, and blew me away.

Um, and I, it, uh, this was...

You gotta understand, this was way before the modern, um, modern AI had developed, and so AI was still kind of in its infancy.