Wow: > 1. Much work in AI has the ``look ma, no hands'' disease. Someone programs a computer to do something no computer has done before and writes a paper poi

Wow: > 1. Much work in AI has the ``look ma, no hands'' disease. Someone programs a computer to do something no computer has done before and writes a paper pointing out that the computer did it. The paper is not directed to the identification and study of intellectual mechanisms and often contains no coherent account of how the program works at all. (It seems this was written in about 1973, published online in 1993. I infer this because the article being reviewed appeared in 1973, and this one speaks of 1978 as being in the future).