November 30, 2005
Dijkstra on thinking machines:
The great computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra on artificial intelligence and thinking machines:
"John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."
Link to 'The threats to computing science' by Edsger Dijkstra.
