PATTERN RECOGNITION BY MACHINE

Except for their inability to recognize patterns, machines (or, more accurately, the programs that tell machines what to do) have now met most of the classic criteria of intelligence that skeptics have proposed. They vised can outperform their designers: The checker-playing program de tion by Arthur L. Samuel of International Business Machines Corpora (1959a) usually beats him. They are original: The "Logic Theorist," a creation of a group from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the RAND Corporation [Newell, Simon, and Shaw (1956