Toward Human-Level Machine Intelligence

Summary form only given. Can machines think? This question has been an object of spirited discussion and debate since the birth of the computer age in the late forties of the last century. My interest in the question goes back to the beginning of my academic career. A paper of mine entitled "Thinking Machines - A New Field in Electrical Engineering," was published in the January 1950 issue of Columbia Engineering Quarterly, six years before AI was born.