Claim: Moravec’s essay expects systems as clever as any designed by more…

Search by nameBrowse by topic

Core institutions

Document histories

Chinese AI histories

Three selected institutional histories, grouped here for navigation. The grouping implies no shared ownership, strategy or lineage.

DeepSeek Alibaba / Qwen Zhipu AI

Coverage is selective

Selected records
1965–2027
Dates after the latest check are scheduled dates

Latest source check
2026-10-26

All records

All topics

Choose an institution to see its records and dossier, or choose a topic.

Through year Show

94 people, organisations and other records · 122 relationships · 34 claims about a valueEverything recorded up to the chosen year, whether or not still in effect · Undated records included

Claim and evidence

Today’s Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Futurearticulates ↓AI-automated AI research

Moravec’s essay expects systems as clever as any designed by more theoretical approaches to arrive sooner because more of the labour has been done by machines.

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1979-02 · publication
Wording attested: 2001-07-10. Author-hosted HTML; the earliest Internet Archive capture, of 2001-07-10, is byte-identical to the copy retrieved in 2026. Not compared with the Analog pages.
Claimed date: 1976-07-21. The text is dated July 21, 1976, and marked "this version 1978"; earlier versions were not retrieved.
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Scope of the passage: Machines doing part of the research labour.

Scope and limitsThe machines are the research tools of the time; people still direct the research.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Today’s Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future

Hans Moravec · 1979-02

Archived copy, captured 2001-07-10: Today’s Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Paraphrase

Experiments, optimizing compilers and a symbolic mathematics system would accelerate research, and the result would arrive "sooner, because more of the labor has been done by machines".

Location in source Section 1, "Harangue", final paragraph

Machine-checked · 2026-10-06

Source details and check notes

Authors: Hans Moravec
Version: Author-hosted HTML in the directory general.articles/1978, retrieved 2026-10-06 (hash matched the pre-1996 candidate search); identical to the capture of 2001-07-10. Author’s project archive, Carnegie Mellon University.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2001-07-10: Today’s Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-07-10. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
Attribution: Hans Moravec, "Today’s Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future", Analog 99 (2), February 1979.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Phrase checked against the retrieved HTML.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A passage of the document meets the proposition’s criterion. The record documents what the text states, in its register (fiction and satire are labelled); it is not evidence that the proposition is true and implies no influence on or from another text.

Date. Issue of Analog (99, no. 2) given in the author’s publication list.

Record ID ts-a5-moravec-1979

Explore the documentary record

All topics