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AI & Machines
Questions of simulation, performance, and whether a convincing mind is a mind.
AI & Machines
The Imitation Game
A mathematician, tired of the question “can machines think?”, replaces it with a game that can be played.
Manchester, on the page of Mind · 1950
AI & Machines
One Thread Among Many
A public figure bets that this is probably not base reality. The bet is not a proof. It is a contemporary form of an old unease.
A stage in California, then the feed · 2016, among other dates
Philosophy
A man in a locked room passes slips of Chinese by a rulebook. From outside, it looks like understanding. From inside, he says, it is not.
The Room That Follows Rules
Berkeley, on the page · 1980
AI & Machines
The Secretary and the Script
A program at MIT reflects a user’s words back in the manner of a Rogerian therapist. People lean in. Its maker is appalled.
MIT, Project MAC · 1966