Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking
Intelligence Squared
The Intuition Pump
The first paper I ever published was about artificial intelligence and Hubert Dreyfus had written his famous alchemy and artificial intelligence diatribe against AI years before Surl. In that piece, DreyfUS said that they'd never make a computer with intuition, but no computer program would ever have intuition. And in my first publication, I said, actually, it's child's play to make a computer that has intuition. You take your computer program that solves any problem you like it, might be long division or weather prediction or whatever. And you ask it a question and it gives an answer and you say, how did you work out that answer? And it says, I
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