ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A FRONTIER OF AUTOMATION

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 340, S. 10-20

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is neither a myth nor a threat to man. It relates to a serious attempt to develop machine methods for dealing with some of the perplexing problems that should, in all justice, be delegated to machines but which now seem to require the exercise of human intelligence. 2 fundamentally diff approaches to the problem are being explored, one aimed at a complete understanding of the intellectual process involved & the other aimed at duplicating the assumed specific behavior of the brain. The first approach concerns itself with such matters as search, pattern recognition, learning, planning & induction; the second involves a study of the behavior of random nets. It is fair to conclude that artificial intelligence promises to reduce rather than to augment technological unemployment. AA.