Souls of a new machine
How can you make a computer think like a person? (Hint: Make people part of the program.)
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." ... (Full article: 614 words)
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