It is a painful fact that modem comput-er intelligence is sharply constrained by the
computers." The bigger we make our programs, the'smarter'they get and the slower they …

Intelligence, whether in a machine or in a living creature, is a mixture of many abilities. Our
current artificial intelligence (AI) technology does a good job of emulating some aspects of …

Despite all the marvelous things that computers can do today, they simply lack many of the
qualities that are present in human intelligence-they don't even have common sense. And it …

• Conclusion–YES: in the near future we can have computers with as many basic processing
elements as our brain, but with• far fewer interconnections (wires or synapses) than the …

Development of highly intelligent computers requires a conceptual foundation that will
overcome the limitations of the von Neumann architecture. Architectures for such a …

Computers are too slow. Even the fastest conventional ma chines can't manage more than a
couple of hundred million multiplications per second. Where does that leave hard problems …

When the phrase'artificial intelligence'was first coined in 1956 by computer scientists,
expectations for the development of machines with human-like intelligent reasoning and …

It has been widely recognized that artificial intelligence computations offer large potential for
distributed and parallel processing. Unfortunately, not much is known about designing …

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CommuniCations of the aCm 13 Im a g es c o u r t es y o f m a r t IN m ü ll e r , u N IV e r s It y o f …

We humans have held high opinions of ourselves throughout the ages. We define ourselves,
Homo sapiens, as the only earthly creatures capable of rational thought. Perhaps as …