Edmund Berkeley on AI
2 quotes from Edmund Berkeley on the wall, 1949, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include John Wiley & Sons.
A machine, therefore, can think
Edmund Berkeley, an American actuary and computing pioneer, wrote this popular 1949 book on the new large calculating machines. The line ends the section "Behavior That Is Thinking" in a chapter that asks whether a machine can think.
They think in ways never open to men before
In the first chapter of his 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, Edmund Berkeley describes what the finished mechanical brains of the time could do, citing machines at Harvard, Bell Laboratories and the Moore School.