How the Machine Learned the Alphabet

About the book:
A little book describing how machines (computers) can learn various things and think.
The book was translated from Russian by Vladimir Korotky and illustrated by Boris Kyshtymov.
The book was published in 1985 by Malysh Publishers.

Book Description:
Why machines are good all around us. “They can fly, walk, build houses and roads.. They can do so many things!” What about the machines that think? Not simply dig the earth, carry loads and fell trees, but also think, solve problems and order other machines about? Let us try to make the simplest thinking machine — a machine that can.... read.

Contents:
page 3   - How to make a machine that can read and why we write postcodes on envelopes
page 8   - The importance of “Yes” and “No” and How People speak with lifts, mills, steam engines and rockets
page 12  - How machines learned that a cat was a cat and why people began calling machines intelligent
page 16  - Iron ducks and Trumpeters, What is automation and how many automatons there are around
page 20 - Why a robot is called a robot, One scientific experiment and what kind of arms and legs robots have