Annual Question on Edge

What do you think about machines that think? That is literary agent John Brockman’s 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  share them on his terrific website Edge.org.

Answers are also this year many and varied — from ideas about machines as enemies to  the helpfulness of thinking machine to how kids can help computers learn to think . My own thought: let’s show thinking machines some love, so that they can learn the way mammals do.