Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954), Tuesday 19 October 1948, page 2


ROBOTS MAY OUTWIT HUMANS

PASADENA, California (Special) .—Man-made robots which may become more intelligent than their human creators are envisioned by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois. Fkr Wflr«»n K MnCllllooh tnlii

the Hlxon Symposium on Cerebral Mechanics that already mechanical brains are superior to the human mind, which he described as 'no more than a mechanical switchboard.' 'The human brain,' he explained, 'reacts to stimuli or memory in stored experience identically with manmade electrical devices.'