i rodney brooks was a guest on the programme, and he is the person who taught me a that marvin minski coined the phrase. I want to shift gear as though and talk about computers. Ah, but you spent a lot of time thinking about ah, i rodney brook's theory of mind. Well, what did he avi mind? What was he thinking there? well, he he believed, this is, i think that quote was important to me because i was trying to understand a culture that believed that souls would be animated by computers. He said they would have animation and intelligence, consciousness, soul-like qualities. And so his work plays an interesting role
Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, The Empathy Diaries, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute observer, skilled at revealing the story behind the story. She also chronicles the early days of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the computer. Topics in this conversation include the challenges of family, the role of technology in our lives, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the importance of Bambi.