{"id":3134,"date":"2015-01-23T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2015-01-23T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:58:34","slug":"thinking-about-thinking-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2015\/01\/23\/thinking-about-thinking-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about thinking machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Annual Question on Edge<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3135\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2015\/01\/23\/thinking-about-thinking-machines\/dahlia640_0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,593\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dahlia640_0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3135\" title=\"dahlia640_0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dahlia640_0-624x578.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about machines that think? That is literary agent John Brockman\u2019s question this year to an international group of outstanding and outspoken scientists, thinkers and writers. Every year, Brockman calls for answers to a pertinent question and\u00a0 share them on his terrific website <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/\">Edge.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3136\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2015\/01\/23\/thinking-about-thinking-machines\/wsjgopnik\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik.png\" data-orig-size=\"993,633\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wsjgopnik\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik.png\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3136\" title=\"wsjgopnik\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik-624x397.png 624w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wsjgopnik.png 993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/responses\/q2015\">Answers<\/a> are also this year many and varied &#8212; from ideas about machines as enemies to\u00a0 the helpfulness of thinking machine to how kids can help computers learn to think . <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/response-detail\/26174\">My own thought:<\/a> let&#8217;s show thinking machines some love, so that they can learn the way mammals do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Question on Edge What do you think about machines that think? That is literary agent John Brockman\u2019s question this year to an international group of outstanding and outspoken scientists, thinkers and writers. Every year, Brockman calls for answers to a pertinent question and\u00a0 share them on his terrific website Edge.org. Answers are also this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[231,229,230],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-brockman","tag-edge","tag-thinking-machines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2FKoN-Oy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}