Artificial Intelligence: A Frontier of Automation

Arthur L. Samuel
Additional contact information
Arthur L. Samuel: International Business Machines Corporation

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1962, vol. 340, issue 1, 10-20

Abstract: Artificial intelligence is neither a myth nor a threat to man. It relates to a serious attempt to develop ma chine methods for dealing with some of the perplexing prob lems that should, in all justice, be delegated to machines but which now seem to require the exercise of human intelligence. Two fundamentally different approaches to the problem are being explored, the one aimed at a complete understanding of the intellectual processes involved and the other aimed at du plicating the assumed specific behavior of the brain. The first approach concerns itself with such matters as search, pattern recognition, learning, planning, and induction; the second ap proach 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.

Date: 1962
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271626234000103 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:340:y:1962:i:1:p:10-20

DOI: 10.1177/000271626234000103

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().