Is the Goal of AI to Create Machines that Think? @NourFoundation
Is the Goal of AI to Create Machines that Think? @NourFoundation
Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Logician & mathematician Roger Antonsen and computer science pioneer Barbara J. Grosz discuss the possibility of "thinking" computers.

This is an excerpt from “Human Consciousness and the AI Revolution“ recorded on December 6, 2018 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion, see: youtu.be/PkIgvcv30xY
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