Sir James Lighthill divided the technology fields of A.I. into three major categories.

Category A belongs to “Applications or Advance Automation,” Category C belongs to central nervous systems’ study & research. Category B belongs to applications that act as a bridge between A, and C. Category B is useful only if its applications help A and B. The main aim of the report was to find the Past failures and disappointments of Artificial Intelligence. Lighthill report concluded that AI-related methods always require a huge amount of knowledge to work efficiently, and AI-related methods cannot access knowledge automatically, which means that there are holes in the intelligence of AI-related methods. Read more

December, 1973