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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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Can Machines Think?

In 1950, Alan Turing wrote a paper that formulated the Turing test and he opened that paper with a question, can machines think? So yes, machines can, but do we have a clue how to build such machines? That's a very different question. Are we capable of building such machines? Are we smart enough? We think we're smart enough to do anything, but maybe we're not. Maybe we're just not smart enough to build. It's not like us.

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