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...basic worries and baroque worries, and a scheme for a robot-astronaut is decidedly baroque. The chief programmer at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, William Henneman, says, "We're still working at things kids have solved by the time they're two years old." What the research on intelligent automata is currently involved in is providing computers with "eyes" and "hands...
...other stories, notably The Other John Peel and The Firebug, are well told but have the characteristic defect in that Sillitoe's automata of the sub-world are moved to explain themselves in terms of those heavily bearded bores Marx and Freud. An unctuous homiletic tone slops over into the hard-case dialogue as Sillitoe labors to make clear that the allright blokes are pro-Corn and the real rozzers are Tory types...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course, he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential-CH3C6H2(NO2)3-set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcards. What does he want...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course, he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential-CH3C6H2(NO2)2-set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcards. What does he want...
...Automata Studies, Dr. Ashby explains how an intelligence amplifier might be constructed. "It has often been remarked," he says, "that any random sequence, if long enough, will contain all the answers." So a machine for solving problems too complex for the human brain should contain a mechanism that presents for consideration all the possible solutions. The machine's job will be to select the right one when it comes along...