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Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy

Guide to Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy, A Traveling Exhibit from the National Library of Medicine.

Resources in HSLIC

Select resources in HSLIC about Artificial Intelligence. Please note that UNM credentials are needed to access the electronic resources if you are not in HSLIC.

Artificial Intelligence

"The ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience.

Since their development in the 1940s, digital computers have been programmed to carry out very complex tasks—such as discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess—with great proficiency.

Despite continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory capacity, there are as yet no programs that can match full human flexibility over wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge." 

 - britannica.com, accessed February 2025

 

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