In a November 1957 address presented by Herbert Simon and jointly authored with Allen Newell, they declared that machines already thought, learned, and created and predicted rapid expansion of their capabilities.

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"In a November 1957 address presented by Herbert Simon and jointly authored with Allen Newell, they declared that machines already thought, learned, and created and predicted rapid expansion of their capabilities."

The published paper identifies the November 1957 address as a joint Simon-Newell work delivered by Simon and preserves their expansive forecast for machine capabilities.

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Source title Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research

Source authors Herbert A. Simon; Allen Newell

Source year 1958

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