"Most people don’t understand computers to even the slightest degree. Thus, they usually explain the computer’s intellectual feats to themselves with the single analogy available to them, the model of their own capacity to think. Consequently, they overrate those machines tremendously."

The same MIT professor was asked whether machines can perform at least some tasks better than humans can. Surely, the answer is yes, but he took the opportunity to distinguish between calculating tasks and judgment tasks.

As always, the Views Expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the US Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any part of the US Government.

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