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From: chris@ctk1.UUCP (Chris Old)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Book reference wanted
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.131016.21665@ctk1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 13:10:16 GMT
Organization: Tran Systems
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I'm trying to find the title and authors of an AI book that I
read some time ago.

The book was co-authored by two people. One of them had a
name like 'Donald Mitchie' or something like that. The name
of the book could have been 'Machine Intelligence'.

It was a paperback, and had a dark cover with some
unrecognisable picture on the front. It contained some
examples of machine generated poetry, and had some glossy
pages in the middle with examples of computer art.

It had an example of a monkey who had a physics book and a
pair of cutters and he had to try and cut some bananas down.
The book also spoke of some situations where it would be
neccesary to lie to robots, because that would make them more
efficient in their work.

If you know of this book, could you please drop me a line.

Thanks in advance,
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