By Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, Michael Wheeler
Scientists, artists, historians, and philosophers hint the evolution of the assumption of clever machines, reflecting at the multidisciplinary quest to clarify brain scientifically as a totally mechanical technique.
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Presumably, Whewell would have considered such an attitude alien to academia. More prosaically, the manner in which academics increasingly rely upon automatic ‘‘smart’’ algorithms to aid them in their work would have worried Whewell. Machine intelligence as typically imagined within modern AI (for example, the smart robot) may yet be a distant dream, but for Whewell and Babbage, it is already upon us in the automatically executed statistical test, the facts, figures, opinions, and arguments instantaneously harvested from the Internet by search engines, and so forth.
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