Joseph Weizenbaum
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Computer scientist (1923 to 2008), creator of the ELIZA program, whose Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) argued that computers should not be given tasks…
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Since we cannot make computers wise, we should not give them tasks that demand wisdom (opens korrents.com)
“since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
- We should combat the imperialism of instrumental reason, not reason itself (opens korrents.com)
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Instrumental reason turns every genuine dilemma into a paradox to be solved by calculation (opens korrents.com)
“But instrumental reason converts each dilemma, however genuine, into a mere paradox that can then be unraveled by the application of logic, by calculation.”
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Since we cannot make computers wise, we should not give them tasks that demand wisdom (opens korrents.com)