Claude Shannon on AI
2 quotes from Claude Shannon on the wall, 1950, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Philosophical Magazine.
Admit the possibility of a mechanized thinking
Claude Shannon, a mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote this paper on programming a computer to play chess. It was first presented at the National IRE Convention in March 1949 and published in March 1950.
Philosophical MagazineProgramming a Computer for Playing Chess
The machine will not learn by mistakes
Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories discusses the limits of his proposed chess-playing program in this paper, dated October 8, 1948 and published in Philosophical Magazine in March 1950.
Philosophical MagazineProgramming a Computer for Playing Chess