Automating Intelligence Thinking Out Loud Donald Noyes 20010630
This is an Idea which has already been applied. (See examples)
It has become part of the new Science which includes other such things as Bio-Engineering. With the increased use of computing devices (more correctly termed Information Devices) the time may come when instruction and understanding are dispensed via such devices designed by InformationEngineers to Formulate correct actions.
Examples
Plant Automation
Military
Historical Roots
"The quest for understanding & automating intelligence has deep roots"
4th cent. B.C.: Mr Aristotle studied mind & thought, defined formal logic"
14th–16th cent.: Renaissance thought built on the idea that all natural or artificial processes could be analyzed and understood
19th cent.: advances in science made the idea of artificial life seem plausible
Shelley's Frankenstein raised moral and ethical questions
Babbage's Analytical Engine proposed programmable machine -- metaphor for brain
19th-20th cent.: advances in logic formalisms, e.g., Boolean algebra, predicate calculus
20th cent.: advent of digital computers in late 1940's made AI viable
Turing wrote seminal paper on thinking machines (1950)"
birth of AI occurred when Marvin Minsky & John Mc Carthy organized the Dartmouth Conference in 1956 brought together researchers interested in "intelligent machines" for next 20 years, virtually all advances in AI were by attendees, Marvin Minsky (MIT), John Mc Carthy (MIT/Stanford), Newell & Simon (Carnegie), ...
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