★ LITTÉRATURE ★ ENGLISH ★ THE HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AMSTRAD BASIC VERSION) ★ |
| The Hitch-hikers Guide to Artificial Intelligence (AMSTRAD BASIC version) | Littérature English |
Now that you have spent a tidy sum of money on a home computer, why not do something clever with it? Artificial Intelligence (AI for short) has always been the ‘department of clever tricks' within computer science. It is concerned with leading-edge problems which are hard for computers even if - like vision - they are easy for people. (Some AI problems, like playing chess well, are difficult both for people and computers.) Our belief is that the home computer user can learn and profit from AI techniques. Today's microcomputers are as powerful as the mainframes that AI researchers were using fifteen years ago. Moreover, AI techniques tend to filter out into general computing practice if they prove successful. Expert systems are a case in point. So this book is a practical do-it-yourself guide, the kind the authors would have liked to read when they first became interested in the field. No such book existed, so we had to write it ourselves. All the programs in this book are in BASIC. There is a widespread myth that AI programs can only be written in LISP or PROLOG, and indeed most academic AI research is conducted in these two languages. But most readers simply do not have access to those languages, and in any case, once you understand the concepts, you can express them in the language that is convenient to you. The most important thing to realize is that AI is exciting, and that you can join in the excitement. The version of BASIC used for the examples is Amstrad Basic but few machine-specific features have been used, and you should find that conversion to other BASIC dialects presents only minor problems. November 1985 Richard Forsyth , Chris Naylor , https://CPCrulez.fr
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