{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Computers and Thought Lecture: The Ubiquity of Discovery","authors":[{"name":"Douglas B. Lenat","slug":"douglas-b-lenat","given":"Douglas B.","family":"Lenat","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"\\s scientists interested in studying the phenomenon of \"intelligence\", we first choose a view of Man, develop a tl!eory of how intelligenf behavior is man;~ g cd, and construct some mndcls which Gill test out and reline that theory. T he view we choose is that Man is a symbolic infonnrttion processor . The theory is th<~t sophisticated cognitive t;~sks can. be cast i\\S searc h es Or explorations, illld that each . human possesses (and efficiently accesses) a large body of informal rules of thumb (l?euristics) which con.strain hi s sea rc h . The so ur ce of what we colloquially call \"intelli gence\" is seen to be very efficient searching of · an a fniori immense sp<~ce. Some computational models which incorpor<1te. this theory arc · described. Among them is AM, a cornputer pro g ram which develops new mathcm;~tical concepts and conjectures involving thr.m; AM is guided in this exploration by a collection of 250 more or. less general heuristic rul es. The operational natur e of .such models . allows P.xperimcnts fo be performed upon them, experime nts which help us test and develop hypotl1eses about intelligence . One interestin g result ha.s been the ubiquity of this kind of heuristic g uid ;~ n ce: intelligence pcrme;~tr.s everyday problem solving <1nd inv ention , as well as the kind of problem solving and invention that scientists and artists perform.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/238","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0238.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/238.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/bibtex/238","volume":{"slug":"1977","title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1977","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/","year":1977,"location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","dates":"","editors":"Raj Reddy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Invited Panel","track":"Invited Panel","number":238,"pages":{"first":1093,"last":-1},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}