Artificial intelligence
Augmenting human intellect is the idea that the computer should amplify people's intelligence to solve complex problems, in a collaboration between people and machines.
It was formulated by the American Douglas Engelbart in 1962 in the essay Augmenting Human Intellect, following two earlier visions: the Memex imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945 and the human-computer symbiosis described by J. C. R. Licklider in 1960. To develop it Engelbart founded the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute, and in 1968 he showed the mouse, hypertext and video conferencing in a single public demonstration. It is the conceptual ancestor of AI used as a copilot, and of the idea of human-in-the-loop.
An example
An analyst who uses AI to explore in an hour hypotheses they would have tested alone in a week, keeping the decision for themselves.
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