The future cyber economy ANZ BlueNotes

In 1959, Marvin Minsky and his colleague John McCarthy founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Project. The men were convinced computers could be made as smart as humans – and then smarter. McCarthy thought functioning AI systems were only a decade away. Around the same time, another researcher, Herbert Simon of CMU, predicted a computer would be the world chess champion by 1967. McCarthy and Simon were wildly wrong – so much so that in 1972 Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote What Computers Can't Do, citing "game playing, language translating, problem solving, and pattern recognition" as key things humans can do and that computers can't.