Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation Joseph Weizenbaum
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Joseph Weizenbaum (1976), Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Freeman. His observations on the tendency of people to anthropomorphize computers formed the basis of his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. Is there still a place for human judgement? (1976), “Computer Power and Human Reason: from Judgement to Calculation”, San Francisco: W. By mid 70s, new computer crime laws and privacy had been enacted in America and Europe. Today, anyone with a flawed human judgment. 1976: A book named 'Computer Power and Human Reason' was published by Joseph Wiezenbaum, which is still considered as the classic of computer ethics. Computers that are fed the right rules can, in principle, calculate ideal chess variations perfectly, whereas humans make mistakes. I have read the 1976 edition of the book Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum – From Judgement to Calculation, although it has been re-published (and presumably updated) in 1993. 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. It is also seductively simple to describe: limit communication methods to a teletype terminal and quiz the computer and/or human-being at the other end to form a judgment about their identity. A computer that spits out a convincingly human set of output is 'intelligent'.