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AI: Can the Machines Really Think?

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Turing Test and the Conversation Around Artificial Intelligence

The original paper by Alan Turing is an extremely strange text. It's a sort of tormented, you know, there's a lot of pain in it and there're a lot of human bafflement in it. I think he's asking the wrong questions in it, really. The whole framing around intelligence and what we think the machine is thinking has caused the conversation to go down a strange side track.

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