Artificial Intelligence: A Frontier of Automation

Artificial intelligence is neither a myth nor a threat to man. It relates to a serious attempt to develop ma chine methods for dealing with some of the perplexing prob lems that should, in all justice, be delegated to machines but which now seem to require the exercise of human intelligence. Two fundamentally different approaches to the problem are being explored, the one aimed at a complete understanding of the intellectual processes involved and the other aimed at du plicating the assumed specific behavior of the brain. The first approach concerns itself with such matters as search, pattern recognition, learning, planning, and induction; the second ap proach involves a study of the behavior of random nets. It is fair to conclude that artificial intelligence promises to reduce rather than to augment technological unemployment.