Word: henneman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are 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...
...results are not important. William Henneman says, "I'm completely unimpressed by facts. I like storing hundreds of thousands of facts in a single sentence." It's the principle of the thing. And the principle behind intelligent automata is no more reassuring than the thought of the ultimate machine. Both suggest power--alien, far-ranging, self-determining, mysterious power. It is a truism that power corrupts men. What will it do to machines...