...defeating their designers. Some might be distinguishing between handprinted letters. Is this enough to justify so much interest, let alone deep concern?...describe and explain what seem now to be our first steps toward the construction of "artificial intelligence." Along with the development of general-purpose...

...intelligence. As predicted already as early as in 1962 by Marvin Minsky in his pioneering paper [19], "we are on the threshold of an era that will be strongly influenced and quite probably dominated by intelligent problem-solving machines". Thanks to the great advances in molecular...

...tonguein-cheek: he's nothing if not mischievous. But 'Steps' was carefully considered. Having opened by saying "we are on the threshold of an era that will be strongly...dominated, by intelligent problem-solving machines" (p. 406), he could have closed with a vainglorious flourish. Instead, he forecast that AI programs,...