Mario Franco, Zeinab Davoudmanesh, Sean P. Maley, Fernanda Sánchez-Puig, Carlos Gershenson

Seventy years of artificial intelligence are usually told as a long preamble followed by a revolution beginning around 2012. We organize the period differently, around a question the field has answered differently at different times: what kind of thing is intelligence, such that a machine could have it? Read that way, the human contribution does not withdraw as systems learn more; it relocates, and mostly to places our instruments do not record. Whether the recent acceleration is a change in kind or a change in budget is, we suspect, the more interesting question, and not one that benchmark curves can settle.

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