Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.

— Douglas B. Lenat, Birth of a Thinking Machine (2001)

Source: https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/articles/thinking_la_times_6_21_01.html

From Michael A. Hiltzik's 2001 newspaper article.

Topics: artificial intelligence