With a caveat · AGI

Herbert Simon on AGI

Professor of administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology

Said November 14, 1957

There are now machines that think, learn and create; their range of problems will expand toward the human range.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

Simon's address presented work co-authored with Allen Newell, including their theorem-proving program. The assertion of existing thought was broader than the demonstrated tasks; the complete human problem range remained a future expectation without a date.

Model / system named

Logic Theorist

Original terminology

machines that think, learn, and create