Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?. Thag PB**

Bots and BeastsWhat Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?\nAuthor(s): Paul Thagard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: MIT Press Ltd, United States\nImprint: MIT Press\nISBN-13: 9780262548540, 978-0262548540\nSynopsis\nAn expert on the mind considers how animals and smart machines, like AI assistants and driverless cars, measure up to human intelligence.\n\nOctopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how computers (\""bots\"") and animals measure up to the minds of people, offering the first systematic comparison of intelligence across machines, animals, and humans.\n\nThagard explains that human intelligence is more than IQ and encompasses such features as problem solving, decision making, and creativity. He uses a checklist of twenty charact.