A Computer and Its Man,

Abstract

Having read a book (Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1976), by the program's creator, it is no longer clear to me who the joke was on. Apparently, some people took the program seriously. The book's principal avowed purpose is to show that there are certain activities that computers (because they are computers) ought not to be made to engage in and derivatively that there are certain kinds of research that ought not to be done. In this endeavor, the author has, I think, substantially failed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA037925

Entities

People

  • Norman Shapiro

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Language
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychotherapy
  • Recognition

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