On 16 Jul 96 at 1:08, John Young wrote:

6-15-96. NYP, Book review:

AFTER THOUGHT The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence By James Bailey Illustrated. 277 pages Basic Books/HarperCollins. $25. ISBN 0-465-00781-3

Mr. Bailey, a former senior manager at the Thinking Machines Corporation, foresees an "electronic computing revolution" whose "intellectual impact will be greater than anything since the Renaissance, possibly greater than anything since the invention of language." In his view, the greatest challenge posed by the computer revolution will be for humans to trust processes of thinking they won't necessarily understand, such as neural networks spotting patterns without supplying proof "in any human-absorbable form."

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