He’s overconfident, as are most experts—“computers will never” is a stupid prediction. But his reasons why the computer chess-playing machines of the 60s wouldn’t work were correct. The problem in 1965 was that people were underestimating the difficulty of what went on in the human brain.
He’s overconfident, as are most experts—“computers will never” is a stupid prediction. But his reasons why the computer chess-playing machines of the 60s wouldn’t work were correct. The problem in 1965 was that people were underestimating the difficulty of what went on in the human brain.