Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
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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.
Why HN recommends it: HN uses it as an early authoritative take in debates about AI, reasoning, and AGI.
“It's very difficult to find some way of defining rather precisely something we can do that we can say a computer will never be able to do.” Read on HN ↗