Artificial intelligence · Skopia

Quotes

6

Scientific literature

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Computing Machinery and Intelligence · 1950

★ 6.1

Essay · Journal · Scientific literature

"Could a machine think?" my own view is that only a machine could think, and indeed only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines that had the same causal powers as brains... Whatever else intentionality is, it is a biological phenomenon, and it is as likely to be as causally dependent on the specific biochemistry of its origins as lactation, photosynthesis, or any other biological phenomena.

Minds, Brains, and Programs · 1980

★ 5.0

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

1984

★ 5.0

Scientific literature

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

1843

★ 4.4

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Books

4

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002★ 6.7

I, Robot

1950★ 6.3

Neuromancer

1984★ 5.3

Hyperion

1989★ 4.8

Movies

3

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

1968★ 9.8

Blade Runner

1982★ 9.2

The Matrix

1999★ 8.9