Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 52 of 68

The philosophical roots of AI

Many of the concepts central to Al have their roots in the work of philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, as we have seen, and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951):

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