Turing’s man: a dialogue
| Autor: | Helena Granström, Bo Göranzon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Meekness
Computer science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Gödel's incompleteness theorems Infinity law.invention Human-Computer Interaction Philosophy Turing machine symbols.namesake Infinite loop Artificial Intelligence Logical conjunction law Calculus symbols Universal Turing machine Artificial intelligence business Turing computer media_common computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | AI & SOCIETY. 28:21-25 |
| ISSN: | 1435-5655 0951-5666 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00146-012-0407-1 |
| Popis: | We can never emulate their meekness, soft servants of durable material: they live without pretension in complicated relays and electrical circuits. Speed, docility are their strength. One asks: “What is 2 × 2?”—“Are you a machine?” They answer or refuse to answer, depending on what you demand. There are, however, other machines as well, more abstract automatons, bolder and more inaccessible, which eat their tape in mathematical formulae. They imitate in language. In infinite loops, farther and farther back in their retreat towards more subtle algorithms, more recursive functions. They are logical and describe themselves. As when a man with a hand-mirror pressed against his nose in front of a mirror sees in infinite rows the same image multiplied in a shrinking, darkening corridor of glass. It is a Godel theorem as good as any. He sees infinity, but what he does not see is his face. (From Goran Printz-Pahlson´s poem “The Turing Machine” published in Sag minns du skeppet Refanut? Samlade dikter 1950–1983 (1984) Bonniers, Stockholm). |
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