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“Someday, perhaps soon, we will build a machine that will be able to perform the functions of a human mind, a thinking machine” [88], the first sentence in Hillis’ book on the Connection Machine, a legendary computing machine that provided a large number of tiny processors and memory cells connected by a programmable communications network. Alan Turing probably had a very similar vision much earlier in the 20th century. What was real processor and real memory for Hillis was pencil and paper for Turing.
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge. — Alan M. Turing, “Can automatic calculating machines be said to think?” Discussion transmitted on BBC Third Programme,1952 (Transcript [196]).
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Teuscher, C. (2002). Intelligent Machinery. In: Turing’s Connectionism. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0161-1_2
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