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Cover Quote: November 1995

Humans are superb problem solvers; superb learners; superb at coordinating functions of sensing and locomotion and problem solving into an integrated unit. However, computer programs can claim intellectual niches that evolution did not provide for us marvelous creatures.

We have to think here’s one intelligent agent, there’s another intelligent agent and they have complementary capabilities. We have to design our systems so that both of these are working together to produce a better result.

Twenty-five years elapsed between the invention of the reaper and its first use in farming. Twenty-five years elapsed between the invention of the telephone and the pay telephone call. It takes a long time.



- Edward A. Feigenbaum
quoted in Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, 1995
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