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Apparently the young man didn’t go into medicine after all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Friedberg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Frie

• defertoreptar 8y ago
  Here's a 1958 article that suggests he made it to at least his second year in medical school. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1958/1/7/friedberg-finds-computer-shows-ability-to/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1958/1/7/friedberg-finds-... Interesting tidbit: > "If we are ever to make a machine that will speak, understand or translate human language, solve mathematical problems with imagination, practice a profession or direct an organization, either we must reduce these activities to a science so exact that we can tell a machine precisely how to go about doing them or we must develop a machine that can do things without being told precisely how,"
  • lioeters 8y ago
    It always amazes me how far-seeing some people were in the early (and pre-) history of computers. The quote above shows such insight/intuition into the future potential of machines, the need for program correctness, the role and nature of machine learning.