While the problem of ai can be viewed as, “Which of all the… - Richard Hamming

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While the problem of ai can be viewed as, “Which of all the things humans do can machines also do?,” I would prefer to ask the question in another form: “Of all of life’s burdens, which are those machines can relieve, or significantly ease, for us?

Richard Hamming

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn · October 1, 1997 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. He received the 1968 Turing Award "for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."

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