Computing machines can't be intelligent (...And Turing said so)

Minds and Machines 12 (4):563-579 (2002)
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According to the conventional wisdom, Turing said that computing machines can be intelligent. I don't believe it. I think that what Turing really said was that computing machines –- computers limited to computing –- can only fake intelligence. If we want computers to become genuinelyintelligent, we will have to give them enough “initiative” to do more than compute. In this paper, I want to try to develop this idea. I want to explain how giving computers more ``initiative'' can allow them to do more than compute. And I want to say why I believe that they will have to go beyond computation before they can become genuinely intelligent.

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