Demo #1: Can Machines Think?

Tuesday, January 1, 2002

What Is It

有一天计算机能够拥有类似人类的意识和智能吗?它们有一天会超越人类的思维吗?他们这么做有关系吗?还是说人工智能从根本上走错了轨道?

Listening Notes

Experience the early days of Philosophy Talk with our first demonstration pilot. Our topic whether machines can think. This pre-recorded pilot has never aired, but along with pilot #2, it played a crucial role, in gaining airtime for Philosophy Talk. Many of the features that now form a part of our bag of trips were already there. Ian Shoale's Sixty Second Philosopher, the reports of Amy Standen, and Conundrums. But we included no callers, and there was a segment that we seem not to be doing any more called Philosophy Talk Goes to the Movie. Because the pilot was pre-recorded, and because we had no radio station partner at the time, it has never aired. But if you are reading these notes, you can be one of the priviledged few to hear Philosophy Talk at one of its earliest incarnations.

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