Humans live; computers don’t | Ann Long
Thinking emerged to serve the active, developmental, linguistic and loving interests of thinkers. And it's because they don't have such interests that computers can't think The question: Why can't computers think? Since thinking, particularly rational thinking, is widely understood as the very touchstone of the human, it's unsurprising that the idea of "thinking computers" encounters considerable resistance
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Humans live; computers don't | Ann Long
Why can’t computers think?
Is there something peculiar to human thought that computers can't capture in principle? At the end of this week, the 2009 Loebner prize will be contested in Brighton, to try to find a computer program that can fool a human that it is another human over five minutes of interaction through a screen
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