Second Stage of the Computer Rev: AI Implementation

Step 1 of the Computer Revolution is known as computer assisted task performance.  This is where the computer software and hardware assists the worker to achieve tasks assigned to him or her.  By using computer-driven software the worker's job performance standards are achieved at speeds incomprehensible prior to the advent of the computer.  Relying on the computer makes the worker look really great!

It took decades of software reiteration to bring about this state of affairs in both industry and finance.  From say the 1950s with dependence of the large mainframes to the development of the PCs and its present off-shoots, the computer has demonstrated that workers and enthusiasts alike can depend on the computer to provide software that make their tasks more quickly achieved.

Step 2 of the Computer Revolution is now in gear.  Under its rubric, computers will undertake to design and implement a series of  computer-created tasks to achieve a human enterprise, such as driving a car or truck or plane, administering some medical procedure, such as performing eye surgery, or increasing significantly a rate-of-return on a computer-managed financial portfolio.  Typically, it is a cyber controlled set of tasks that answers the human question, "I want to do x," where x is a socially defined activity or profession.  

That is to say, at some point or other, the computer becomes a social agent--a truck driver; a lawyer; a doctor.

Step 2 involves the computer in learning from its mistakes.  It will come to find out that doing a task is better performed one way rather than some other; and it will take  heed to the situation or environment that causes the computer to achieve its purpose or objective one way rather than another.