Uh, kind of the opposite :D The quote (from Dijkstra) is that asking whether machines think is as uninteresting as asking whether submarines swim. He's not say

Uh, kind of the opposite :D The quote (from Dijkstra) is that asking whether machines think is as uninteresting as asking whether submarines swim. He's not saying machines don't think, he's saying it's a pointless thing to argue about - an opinion about whether AIs think is an opinion about word usage, not about AIs.