Cambridge Quintet - Can Machines Think: Can Machines Think

Author: Casti
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: The setting is 1949 at Christ's College, Cambridge, England. The participants at the dinner are five great thinkers: novelist and physicist Snow, renowned mathematician Turing, philosopher of language Wittgenstein, quantum physicist Schr?dinger, and geneticist Haldane. As they savor delicious dishes, they engage in extensive and profound discussions around the theme "Can machines think?" Through the debates of the thinkers in this fictional dinner, the author reveals the challenges faced by machine intelligence. This is a new way to present science and a feast of wisdom dedicated to the readers.