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AGIRecord · simon-1965

Herbert A. Simon

Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon

Why they matterTuring Award laureate and Nobel laureate in Economics; a founding figure of AI

Status
Closed
Prediction made
1965
Predicted arrival
1985
Interval
20 yrs

Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do.

Context

Written at the height of first-wave AI optimism. Twenty years later the field was in the middle of the second AI winter.

Why it is considered incorrect

By 1985 no general-purpose machine could perform arbitrary human work; symbolic AI had stalled and the second AI winter was underway.