Can computers think? No. They can’t actually do anything | Aeon Essays
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For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does
Computers don’t actually do anything. They don’t write, or play; they don’t even compute. Which doesn’t mean we can’t play with computers, or use them to invent, or make, or problem-solve. The new AI is unexpectedly reshaping ways of working and making, in the arts and sciences, in industry, and in warfare. We need to come to terms with the transformative promise and dangers of this new tech. But it ought to be possible to do so without succumbing to bogus claims about machine minds. What could ever lead us to take seriously the thought that these devices of our own invention might actually…
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