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A Full Transcript of the Ligthill Debate on AI from 1973, with Introductory Remarks - Dicklesworthstone/the_lighthill_debate_on_ai

Vishal Sikka: AI can be a great enabler and enhancer of human potential, creativity and  imagination.

A separate article about Simon’s quotation is available here. In 1972 philosopher and AI critic Hubert L. Dreyfus published “What Computers Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason”, and he referred to Minsky’s prediction: Is there, thus, any reason to be confident that these programs are approaching the “superior heuristics for managing their knowledge structure” which Minsky believed human beings must have; or, as Minsky claims in another of his books, that within a generation...