Human experience in artificial intelligence

When computers were yet in their infancy, some experts fancied them to be-much as they fancied humans were-structurable to develop intelligence on their own. It has since been learned that the mind is not developed with the spontaneity originally conjectured and that computers are not wont to ''bootstrap'' their way to higher levels of intelligence. The computer, if it is to adapt to new situations, must be given a ''helping human hand''. There are various ways of programming a computer to ''acclimate'': One is based on a logic of syntax; another uses semantics; still a third, dwelled upon here at length, is based on repeated human intervention and computer interplay.