Artificial Immune Systems: A New Computational Intelligence Approach - Leandro N.De Castro & Jonathan Timmis

Advantages: Gripping read
Disadvantages: Can't putthe book down

...'ll suddenly start to wonder if what you are reading will always be fiction. Parhaps it won't, and perhaps that is what gives this story so much appeal. I don't think its easy to review books. I could go on and on and spoil the book for anyone who hasn't read it, but I'll try not to. Anyway this super building isn't yet open for business. Architecture and Fung Shui combine, as the Chairman of the corporation believes in Fung Shui, and the building is just going through its last checks before being handed over to the new occupiers. In the building is a small team of architects, the Fung Shui consultant, a security guard, and the worlds most powerful computer, when suddenly the computer goes wrong. It stops running the buildings air conditioning system and stops using the cleaning robots how they should be run, and starts treating... Read review

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Advantages: Brings difficult concepts to life. Brilliantly original.
Disadvantages: Not an easy read.

...for it by its programmer. There is an argument that this is impossible - described eloquently by Roger Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind. There is also an argument that, given enough processing power and enough complexity, that intelligence will arise automatically. This may seem more likely, after all our brains have evolved with a finite number of neurons and neural pathways. Equally, advances in computing power, which is growing at a phenomenal rate, may one day reach and even surpass our own intelligence. Then again, this could be an impossibility. Hofstadter is definitely in the "AI is possible" camp. Written in 1979, Godel Escher Bach (GEB) is Hofstadter's pioneering and brilliant attempt at popularising his own approach to artificial intelligence. It explores things from the ground up - How can we simulate thoughts on a computer? What... Read review

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Advantages: Thought-provoking; topical; prolific
Disadvantages: None

...’, it is after all what people are used to, what conditioning they receive in their formative years and what morals they are taught. I have been brought up in one way, what makes me so sure that it was the right way and every other way is wrong. At the end of Brave New World, the Utopia remains. Those who aren’t satisfied with the ideology leave either by force or by will. They have to go so that the utopian society can be protected and so that social stability remains. Social stabilty = peace = harmony. Does this ring any bells? Maybe we already have our utopian society and those that threaten it have to be removed? Did I mention that Huxley in the 1920’s described America as being “Materially, the nearest approach to Utopia yet seen on out planet” and that “the future of America is the future... Read review

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