%0 Journal Article %1 mcdermott1976artificial %A McDermott, Drew %C New York, NY, USA %D 1976 %I Association for Computing Machinery %J SIGART Bull. %K ai artiicial intelligence %N 57 %P 4–9 %R 10.1145/1045339.1045340 %T Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity %U https://doi.org/10.1145/1045339.1045340 %X As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward this charge, drawing ourselves up with dignity when it is made and folding the cloak of Science about us. On the other hand, in private, we have been justifiably proud of our willingness to explore weird ideas, because pursuing them is the only way to make progress.

@article{mcdermott1976artificial, abstract = {As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward this charge, drawing ourselves up with dignity when it is made and folding the cloak of Science about us. On the other hand, in private, we have been justifiably proud of our willingness to explore weird ideas, because pursuing them is the only way to make progress.}, added-at = {2024-05-16T09:49:03.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {McDermott, Drew}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c2282bdb25d27c7c55374cfaf5073b24/jaeschke}, day = 1, description = {Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity | ACM SIGART Bulletin}, doi = {10.1145/1045339.1045340}, interhash = {5a1701a09318fcdf0382ebeeda4995a6}, intrahash = {c2282bdb25d27c7c55374cfaf5073b24}, issn = {0163-5719}, issue_date = {April 1976}, journal = {SIGART Bull.}, keywords = {ai artiicial intelligence}, month = {4}, number = 57, numpages = {6}, pages = {4–9}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, timestamp = {2024-05-16T09:49:03.000+0200}, title = {Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1045339.1045340}, year = 1976 }