Word: humanize
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...folk-dance troupe and the third is a farmer. One of his most affecting shots depicts a boatload of exhilarated Moroccan Jews catching sight of Israel for the first time. "Photographs, like wine, improve with age," says Rubinger. "My favorites are the ones taken years ago that show human beings, having survived horrors, being remade into new men and women." Rubinger has taken some of his least favorite photographs during the Palestinian uprising of the past few months. "Pain has taken the place of pride in documenting events," he says...
Mycin took some 20 man-years to complete. It turned out to be more accurate than the humans against whom it was tested: in one trial, the system prescribed the correct treatment 65% of the time, in contrast to human specialists, who were right in 42.5% to 62.5% of cases. Still, Mycin did not have a clue that it was diagnosing a human being, nor did it have any idea what a human is. In fact, it was perfectly capable of trying to prescribe penicillin to fix a broken window. All it could do was rigidly test the applicability...
While Weizenbaum and other critics insisted on measuring Mycin against human intelligence and knowledge, others looked at the system and saw a computer- handling expertise that had previously resisted automation. No one, however, was going to build expert systems if they took several years to construct. Solution: create a Mycin without medical knowledge -- in effect, construct an empty shell into which programmers could pour all kinds of different expertise. In 1977 a team of Stanford researchers under Feigenbaum dubbed the new shell Emycin (for Empty Mycin) and used it to build several more expert systems. Emycin spurred a number...
...develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating a mathematical model of the intellect, as an older generation of AI researchers have tried and failed...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes a love story that throbs with the human comedy. -- David Brinkley' s wartime Washington...