heuristic
Problem-solving shortcut that finds a good-enough answer faster than exhaustive search, at the cost of guaranteed correctness.
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Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence, RAND Corporation Memorandum by Hubert Dreyfus
In December 1965, Hubert Dreyfus, a philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology consulting for the RAND Corporation, published RAND Memorandum P-3244, 'Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence', arguing that the cognitive assumptions underlying contemporary AI research were philosophically untenable and that the field faced fundamental, not merely technical, limits.