Reconsiderations

Those of us engaged in artificial intelligence research have the historically unique privilege of asking and answering the most profound scientific and engineering questions that people have ever set for themselves--questions about the nature of those processes that separate us humans from the rest of the universe--namely intelligence, reason, perception, self-awareness, and language. It is clear--to most of us in AI, at least--that our field, perhaps together with molecular genetics, will be society's predominant scientific endeavor for the rest of this century and well into the next...