<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">At this weekend's NYC antiquarian book show:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-css-s99gbd gmail-StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="margin:0px auto 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:flex;height:53px;width:1170px"><div class="gmail-css-53u6y8" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px"><h2 class="gmail-css-kypbrf eoo0vm40" id="gmail-link-7e83a1b0" style="margin:1.1875rem auto 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.75rem;line-height:2.125rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;max-width:100%">Thinking Machines</h2></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail-css-79elbk" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail-css-z3e15g" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;opacity:0"></div><div class="gmail-css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;opacity:1"><div class="gmail-css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden">Image</span><div class="gmail-css-1pq3dr9" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;height:auto"><span class="gmail-css-1j5kxti" style="opacity:1;display:block;width:600px"><img alt="A book with a yellow, slightly tattered dust jacket, with the title “Giant Brains or Machines That Think,” by Edmund C. Berkeley, and a black circle containing an image of a human face with a yellow wire connecting the forehead to a box." class="gmail-css-1m50asq" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/04/28/multimedia/27antiquarian-book-fair7-hbcq/27antiquarian-book-fair7-hbcq-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: top; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;"></span></div></div></div><span aria-hidden="false" class="gmail-css-jevhma e13ogyst0" style="margin:0px 7px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem;line-height:1.25rem;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">A first edition of the 1949 book “Giant Brains: Or, Machines That Think” is on offer as part of a collection of books, documents and artifacts called “A.I.: The Hidden History.”</span><span class="gmail-css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:1.125rem;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;letter-spacing:0.01em"><span class="gmail-css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0" style="padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden">Credit...</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span aria-hidden="false" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">via Christian White Rare Books</span></span></span></div><div height="703.78125px" width="600px" class="gmail-css-mg94x4 e11si9ry2" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;height:703.781px;width:600px"><div class="gmail-css-tux0zj e11si9ry3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"><div width="200px" height="703px" class="gmail-css-1u0scq7 e11si9ry1" style="margin:0px;padding:15px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:flex;width:200px;height:703px;opacity:0"></div><div width="600px" height="703.78125px" class="gmail-css-337fxp e11si9ry4" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;height:703.781px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail-css-1pq3dr9" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;height:auto"><span class="gmail-css-1j5kxti" style="opacity:1;display:block;width:600px"><img alt="A book with a yellow, slightly tattered dust jacket, with the title “Giant Brains or Machines That Think,” by Edmund C. Berkeley, and a black circle containing an image of a human face with a yellow wire connecting the forehead to a box." src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/04/28/multimedia/27antiquarian-book-fair7-hbcq/27antiquarian-book-fair7-hbcq-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 703.781px; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;"></span></div></div></div><button aria-label="Expand image captioned A first edition of the 1949 book “Giant Brains: Or, Machines That Think” is on offer as part of a collection of books, documents and artifacts called “A.I.: The Hidden History.”" class="gmail-css-1vkv6l7 e11si9ry0" style="color:black;margin:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:middle;padding:0px;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;height:60px;width:60px;opacity:0"></button></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-css-s99gbd gmail-StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="margin:0px auto 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:flex;height:390px;width:1170px"><div class="gmail-css-53u6y8" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px"><p class="gmail-css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;max-width:100%">Today, the specter of artificial intelligence may rouse anxiety in the minds of the bookish sorts who pack the fair. But in his 1949 book “Giant Brains: Or, Machines That Think,” the American computer scientist Edmund Callis Berkeley struck a more upbeat note. “It seems to me,” he wrote, “that they will take a load off men’s minds as great as the load that printing took off men’s writing: a great burden lifted.” A first edition of Berkeley’s book is among the dozens of items included in “A.I.: The Hidden History,” a collection of books, documents and artifacts offered by Christian White Rare Books ($125,000). The collection includes material from leading figures like the mathematician Claude Shannon (known as the father of information theory) and the philosopher David Lewis, as well as from (ahem) women who were active in the field.</p></div></div><div class="gmail-bottom-of-article" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Times;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div class="gmail-css-1jp38cr" style="margin:1.5rem auto 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:600px"><div class="gmail-css-cw8msf e1e7j8ap1" style="margin:0.75rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.375rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail-css-kzd6pg" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/new-york-antiquarian-book-fair.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/new-york-antiquarian-book-fair.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Stay sane</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">,</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="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