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\centerline{\bf CAN A MACHINE THINK?}
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Alan Turing's 1950 ``Computing Machinery and Intelligence'' was the first
scientific paper to raise the question, and it's certainly time to review
it.  There is still plenty of reason to believe that man will eventually
succeed in making computer programs with more general intelligence than
man, but much more is known than in 1950 about the problems that have to
be solved first.  The lecture will discuss the following five topics:

(1) defining the goal of artificial intelligence precisely.

(2) the progress that has been made in discovering and implementing
intellectual mechanisms.

(3) the recent development of formalized nonmonotonic reasoning.

(4) the limited applications present scientific knowledge makes possible.

(5) the fundamental conceptual problems that remain before human-level
intelligence is reached.
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