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cognitive behaviors to a young human child (say, a 3 year old) [AABL02]. In fact this sort of idea has a long and venerable history in the AI field — Alan Turing’s original 1950 paper on AT [Tur50], where he proposed the Turing Test, contains the suggestion that "Instead of trying to produce a programme to simu

xplain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the mor

re only a few actual computers in operation, Norbert Wiener imagined the future we now contend with in impressive detail and with few clear mistakes. Alan Turing’s famous 1950 article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” in the philosophy journal Mind, foresaw the development of AI, and so did Wiener, but Wie

xplain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the mor

re only a few actual computers in operation, Norbert Wiener imagined the future we now contend with in impressive detail and with few clear mistakes. Alan Turing’s famous 1950 article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” in the philosophy journal Mind, foresaw the development of AI, and so did Wiener, but Wie