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Joesph Weizenbaum
(8 Jan 1923 - 5 Mar 2008)
German engineer and computer scientist.
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Science Quotes by Joesph Weizenbaum (1 quote)
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, (1976) 203 and 223. Also excerpted in Ronald Chrisley (ed.), Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts (2000), Vol. 3, 313 and 321. Note that the second ellipsis spans 8 pages.
See also:
- 8 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Weizenbaum's birth.
- Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, by Joseph Weizenbaum. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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