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What Is Thought?
This industrial film produced for Bell Labs is a mix of live-action and animated sequences. It asks the question "Do computers think?" and concludes "That depends on what you mean by think."
That's not a particularly satisfactory answer, and almost sixty years later, with Artificial Intelligence the hot topic on the financial channels, when you talk to people who understand computers, you get the same answer. Computers, this short tells us, are very good at what is called pattern recognition, but they require training .... don't ask me about that, I deal with computers like a monkey pushing buttons. Is that thought? Well, that depends on what you mean by thought.
That's not a particularly satisfactory answer, and almost sixty years later, with Artificial Intelligence the hot topic on the financial channels, when you talk to people who understand computers, you get the same answer. Computers, this short tells us, are very good at what is called pattern recognition, but they require training .... don't ask me about that, I deal with computers like a monkey pushing buttons. Is that thought? Well, that depends on what you mean by thought.
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- boblipton
- May 29, 2024
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