SAN FRANCISCO — For three-quarters of a century, the global trajectory of artificial intelligence research has been guided by a pair of foundational assumptions first articulated by Alan Turing in 1950. According to prominent computer scientist and author Peter J. Denning, those two seminal concepts may have steered the entire technological enterprise down the wrong […]
The Ghost in the Machine: Has 75 Years of AI Research Been a Philosophical Detour?
For three-quarters of a century, the trajectory of artificial intelligence has been steered by the North Star of Alan Turing. His seminal 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, did more than propose a benchmark for machine thought; it laid the foundation for the modern digital age. However, according to Peter J. Denning, a distinguished computer […]