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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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Is There a Mechanical Process That Can Calculate Numbers?

Turing set out to define what sort of machine could do that. He came up with a very simple set of constraints, where there was an infinite supply of paper. This was the tape of the Turing machine. And then we had Moore's law, which took off, and it's been an incredibly powerful tool. The version we have now is incredibly powerful. I wouldn't argue with that.

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