Is Soft Computing in Technology and Medicine Human-Friendly?

摘要

In this paper, which is both historical and philosophical, we regard soft computing (synonymous with computational intelligence) to be an approach in artificial intelligence research. Soft computing and fuzzy sets, its core, were founded by Lotfi A. Zadeh. We show his contributions to the establishment of this field of artificial intelligence since 1950 and we propose that it provides proper methods for the development of human-friendly technology and medicine in the 21st century.