Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
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We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.