... modifying or improving it.1 In summary of all this symbol scanning is a machine which can solve any solvable problem - and through this it may simulate human thought. Any modern computer is essentially a modified Turing machine. The question at the center of artificial intelligence is: "Are human beings also Turing machines?" Or more specifically: "Can human intelligence be simulated by ... even realize it. Between then and now, AI research has been largely confined to the academic and scientific world. In 1960, Joseph Wiezbaum of M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed...

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