The Principal Activities Of Brains Are Making

Artificial Intelligence Is The Science Of Making Machines Do Things That Would Require Intelligence If Done By Men.

We Wanted To Solve Robot Problems And Needed Some Vision, Action, Reasoning, Planning, And So Forth. We Even Used Some Structural Learning, Such As Was Being Explored By Patrick Winston.

Logic Doesn't Apply To The Real World. D. R. Hofstadter And D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

Each Practitioner Thinks There's One Magic Way To Get A Machine To Be Smart, And So They're All Wasting Their Time In A Sense. On The Other Hand, Each Of Them Is Improving Some Particular Method, So Maybe Someday In The Near Future, Or Maybe It's Two Generations Away, Someone Else Will Come Around And Say, "let's Put All These Together," And Then It Will Be Smart.

Computer Languages Of The Future Will Be More Concerned With Goals And Less With Procedures Specified By The Programmer.