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Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?

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Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?

An excerpt of Richard Feynman's 1985 lecture Q&A about whether machines can think. He discusses the difficulty of defining what computers can never do and compares machine intelligence to machines that don't copy animals.

HN uses it as an early authoritative take in debates about AI, reasoning, and AGI.

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