Subject: Souls of a new machine - Rmail Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:51:18 -0800
Souls of a new machine (Boston Globe) ONE OF THE great broken promises of the 20th-century view of the future, right up there with personal jet-packs, was the promise of artificial intelligence. AI was supposed to lead to computers that wouldn't just calculate and organize, but reason and analyze; computers that could really think, like HAL in "2001" or KITT on the 1980s TV show "Knight Rider." ... Link - Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:23:44 GMT - Feed (1 subs) Copyright (c) 2004 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. --------------------------------- Sent using R|mail.