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Intelligence Augmentation

Doug Endelbart, one of the pioneers of [human-computer interaction] championed the idea of intelligence augmentation - IA rather then AI. He believed that computers should augment human abilities rather than automate away human tasks. In 1968, Engelbart's "mother of all demos" showed off for the first time the computer mouse, a windowing system, hypertext, and video conferencing - all in an effort fot demonstrate what human knowledge workers could collectively accomplish with some intelligence augmentation.
-- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th Edition) (1.2.5 Neuroscience)