Machine Thinking Quotes

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'