Year: 1959
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: To distinguish himself from the poor benighted man-in-the-street, the computer sophisticate is apt to refer to the beasts as "so-called giant brains" or as "lightning-fast idiots." He knows, as do we, the great gulf which separates the human brain from the general-purpose digital computer. Still, the exact dimensions of that gulf are quite unknown, and the desire to show that the hiatus between man and machine is smaller than many suspect impels both the adventuresome and the iconoclastic. The attempt, the successful attempt, to automate one area hitherto considered an exclusively human domain constitutes my topic today.
Author: E. S. Spiegelthal
Institution: General Electric (United States)
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1974223197