H.I. better than A.I.

[Martin Cassini]

An article in the New York Times about artificial intelligence (31.5.09) concludes with a quote from Dr Henry Baird, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. "Machines' abilities are slowly improving, but there is still a huge gap between human inborn perceptual abilities and machine skills." Yet traffic engineers and policymakers still refuse to trust us and insist on controlling our every move.