"If we regard thinking as a property of external actions rather than internal method, the machine is surely thinking." #readingToday How should we think about "thinking machines"? Do machines think in the way we do? Do we want them to? What were an artificial brain's strengths and weaknesses? Shannon gave a measured answer, one that surely reflected the fact that he himself hadn't come to firm conclusions: "From a behavioristic point of view, the machine acts as though it were thinking. It has always been considered that skillful play requires the reasoning faculty. If we regard thinking as a property of external actions rather than internal method, the machine is surely thinking." "A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age" by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman Start reading this book for free: http://a.co/d0ZNm11