"Right now, I don't know, I think I'd try to get involved in the bridge between AI and neurophysiology. Let's take neuroscience in particular because I think there's still a lot of secrets about how the brain works that we don't understand that'll be helpful in engineering. The reason we don't understand them, I think, is we haven't invented the concepts needed to understand them. I have this analogy with computers. If you had a Martian coming down looking at computers, measuring all the currents flowing back and forth from the transistors, no amount of all that measuring, no amount of understanding how a transistor works is going to tell you how say an online banking system works or how an airline reservation system works. You have to have concepts that got invented in computer science to even understand them. You have to have concepts like lists, programs, data structures, compilers and there are probably a whole set of analogous concepts in helping us understand the brain."
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Nils John Nilsson
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement. He is particularly known for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics
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