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Today's Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future

Hans Moravec
Stanford University
July 21, 1976
this version
1978

Introduction:

The unprecedented opportunities for experiments in complexity
presented by the first modern computers in the late 1940's raised
hopes in early computer scientists (eg. John von Neumann and Alan
Turing) that the ability to think, our greatest asset in our dealings
with the world, might soon be understood well enough to be
duplicated. Success in such an endeavor would extend mankind's mind in
the same way that the development of energy machinery extended his
muscles.

In the thirty years since then computers have become vastly
more capable, but the goal of human performance in most areas seems as
elusive as ever, in spite of a great deal of effort. The last ten
years, in particular, has seen thousands of people years devoted
directly to the problem, referred to as Artificial Intelligence or
AI. Attempts have been made to......

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