The Lighthill Parliament Debate on General Purpose Artificial Intelligence

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In 1973, Lucasian professor at Cambridge James Lighthill was asked by the British Parliament to evaluate the state of AI research in the United Kingdom. His report, now called the Lighthill report, criticized the failure of AI to achieve its grandiose objectives. He specifically mentioned the problem of “combinatorial explosion” or “intractability” of the discourse [...]
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Title The Lighthill Parliament Debate on General Purpose Artificial Intelligence
In 1973, Lucasian professor at Cambridge James Lighthill was asked by the British Parliament to evaluate the state of AI research in the United Kingdom. His report, now called the Lighthill report, criticized the failure of AI to achieve its grandiose objectives. He specifically mentioned the problem of “combinatorial explosion” or “intractability” of the discourse [...]
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