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Saturday, June 30, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/30/technology/30ARTI.html

June 30, 2001
Artificial Intelligence for the New Millennium

By BARNABY J. FEDER

For those wondering when artificial intelligence will truly take root, here's a bulletin: it already has. Artificial intelligence is now a regular academic discipline. It is already embedded in many everyday products. And it helps businesses sort through and make sense of huge databases.

Even so, a controversy erupts with each step toward the day when machines might be said to surpass humans in intelligence — a day that some say will trumpet progress for humanity, but that others say will court disaster....

 


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