Glenlake Publishing Company. Glenlake Publishing Company. Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies. In successful mature technologies it's not possible to isolate the form and function. The logical design and the mechanical design of a pen or a piano bind their mechanism with their user interface so closely that it's possible to use them without thinking of them as technology, or even thinking of them at all.
Invisibility is the missing goal in computing.
Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do. Herbert Simon, 1965. The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. With 100 trillion connections, each computing at 200 calculations per second, we get 20 million billion calculations per second. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness.