Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?

Why it was recommended

It's very difficult to find some way of defining rather precisely something we can do that we can say a computer will never be able to do.

Referencesobellian · Original2025-03

What it covers

An excerpt of Richard Feynman's 1985 lecture Q&A about whether machines can think. He discusses the difficulty of defining what computers can never do and compares machine. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Lex Clips

Length

18 min 27 sec

Year

2019

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