W1SEG

Amateur Radio Station

It must be emphasized that the machine does not think for itself. It may exercise some degree of judgment and discrimination, but the situations in which these are required, the criteria to be applied, and the actions to be taken according to the criteria, have all to be forseen in the program of operating instructions furnished to the machine. Use of the machine is no substitute for thought on the basic organization of a computation, only for the labour of carrying out the details of the application of that thought.
—Douglas R. Hartree

quote EM gift

If somebody can show that we’re wrong, that would be great. If somebody can explain: “There is a way to make your design better,” this is a gift! I would be like, “Thank you for this great gift! Wow this is awesome!” The worst thing would be like, “We want to do a dumb design and stick with our dumb design.” That would be insane.
—Elon Musk

W1SEG Amateur Radio Station

quote EM gift

If somebody can show that we’re wrong, that would be great. If somebody can explain: “There is a way to make your design better,” this is a gift! I would be like, “Thank you for this great gift! Wow this is awesome!” The worst thing would be like, “We want to do a dumb design and stick with our dumb design.” That would be insane.
—Elon Musk

It must be emphasized that the machine does not think for itself. It may exercise some degree of judgment and discrimination, but the situations in which these are required, the criteria to be applied, and the actions to be taken according to the criteria, have all to be forseen in the program of operating instructions furnished to the machine. Use of the machine is no substitute for thought on the basic organization of a computation, only for the labour of carrying out the details of the application of that thought.
—Douglas R. Hartree