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Some early ideas about machine intelligence made room for a distinctly human trait: irrationality. MIT historian Benjamin Lindquist argues that mid-20th-century engineers believed a machine that could think like a person would need some of it too.
Why it mattersThat’s a neat wrinkle in AI’s history: the dream was not always to make machines perfectly logical. How much should today’s AI aim to imitate human thinking, irrational bits included?
Discuss: Should AI aim to imitate human thinking, irrational bits included, or should it be more consistent than people?
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