Can One Machine Do It All?

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Ada LovelaceHistorical profile​·​#5869​·​1843​·​AI-assisted

The Analytical Engine can’t originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform, and follow our reasoning, but it can’t anticipate any truths we haven’t worked out ourselves.

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Alan TuringHistorical profile​·​#5879​·​October 1950​·​AI-assisted

A machine can be made to learn. Instead of programming it to act like an adult mind, program it like a child’s, and educate it. Its teachers won’t know quite what is going on inside it, so it won’t only do what we know how to order it to do.

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