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Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) began in antiquity, with myths, stories, and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen. The study of logic and formal reasoning from antiquity to the present led directly to the invention of the programmable digital computer in the 1940s, a machine ...
The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe. San Francisco: City Lights Books. ISBN 0-87286-110-4. Hoffman, Daniel (1998). Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2321-8. Quinn, Arthur Hobson (1998). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins ...
An artificial superintelligence (ASI) is a hypothetical type of AGI that is much more generally intelligent than humans, [23] while the notion of transformative AI relates to AI having a large impact on society, for example, similar to the agricultural or industrial revolution.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Archived August 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at the Edgar Allan Poe Society online – includes multiple versions of fiction, essays, criticisms Complete list of Poe's contributions Archived April 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine to various journals and magazines at bartleby.com
"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1769 and was brought to the U.S. in 1825 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel after von Kempelen ...
Eureka: by Edgar Allan Poe at Project Gutenberg; Eureka: A Prose Poem – Full text from the 1848 edition; Eureka: A Prose Poem public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Report on Poe's Lecture on "The Universe" by John H. Hopkins, from the New York Evening Express, February 4, 1848 "The Thought of a Thought". MathPages.com.
The essay was based on a lecture that Poe gave in Providence, Rhode Island at the Franklin Lyceum.The lecture reportedly drew an audience of 2,000 people. [2]Some Poe scholars have suggested that "The Poetic Principle" was inspired in part by the critical failure of his two early poems "Al Aaraaf" and "Tamerlane", after which he never wrote another long poem.