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I was surprised by the Dijkstra quote on that page: "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submari
by ktpsns 6y ago
I was surprised by the Dijkstra quote on that page:
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Here is an interesting discussion/context of this quote: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/ak4sn/the_question_of_whether_a_computer_can_think_is/c0i01re https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/ak4sn/the_quest...
I think we can conclude that this quote is not at all against the developments of AI or ML at that time or now.