Of minds and machines
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In the 1950s and '60s -- when MITs Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts were building networks of artificial neurons, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky were helping to create the discipline of artificial intelligence and Noam Chomsky was revolutionizing the study of linguistics -- hopes were high that tools emerging from the new science of computation would soon unravel the mysteries of human thought.