✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

It's Alive! | WIRED

wired.com · 1,687 words · saved by 1 readers

From airport tarmacs to online job banks to medical labs, artificial intelligence is everywhere. In the 1960s, cyberneticians predicted that machines would be smarter than people within 20 years. Artificially intelligent computers would be building cities on Mars and solving diplomatic crises at home. (Along the way, of course, we’d have created a nice set \[…\]

Save this story Save this story From airport tarmacs to online job banks to medical labs, artificial intelligence is everywhere. In the 1960s, cyberneticians predicted that machines would be smarter than people within 20 years. Artificially intelligent computers would be building cities on Mars and solving diplomatic crises at home. (Along the way, of course, we'd have created a nice set of steel-plated servants: robot butlers to greet our guests, robot nannies to watch the kids.) But somewhere between promise and production, the fantasy got derailed. AI came to mean a computer that could beat

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading