Ambrose Bierce on AI
2 quotes from Ambrose Bierce on the wall, 1899, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include San Francisco Examiner.
Do you really believe that a machine thinks
American journalist and story writer Ambrose Bierce opens his short story Moxon's Master, about an inventor and his chess-playing automaton, first printed in the San Francisco Examiner in April 1899.
A machine thinks about the work that it is doing
In Ambrose Bierce's short story Moxon's Master, first published in the San Francisco Examiner on April 16, 1899, the inventor Moxon gives this reply to the narrator. In the story a chess automaton kills its maker.