The ‘Thinking’ Machine
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Description (in English):
An essay by Christopher Strachey about his love letter generator M.U.C. and the question of whether computers will ever be able to think for themselves.
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We are now in a rather better position to consider whether or not computers can think. In the first place the question must clearly be recast in the form "Can we write a program to make a computer ’think’ ?" and in this form it becomes obvious that the answer depends almost entirely on the meaning we attach to the term "think."