His strictly scientific aims, he said, were limited to using computers to understand how humans think, and as an aid to human thinking.
Rather than simply rejecting the creation myth on rationalist grounds, he finds in it symbols and metaphors which reveal how much surprising continuity there has been in human thinking about our origins.
Looking back on his inventions, a common theme since that first music composer has been pattern recognition which he believes is the essence of human thinking and the essence of the better-than-human artificially-enhanced intelligence that we are evolving toward.
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Deep-learning software tries to emulate, albeit in a still primitive way, the activity in layers of neurons in the neocortex, the part of the human brain where thinking occurs.
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Nearly half of respondents, who took part in the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey, agreed that once someone is diagnosed with dementia they are not treated like "a thinking human being".
First, Watson is of course no thinking human.
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It involves more than just visual appeal, it requires thinking about human characteristics.
Recently I was on a train to DC, thinking about human beings as tribal creatures.
This diagram provides a spectrum for thinking about how human nature and business intersect.
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As is frequently the case with the so-called human sciences, the latest thinking recalls some of the very oldest.
How we arrived here has less to do with sex or any other behavior and more to do with the handicap of short-term thinking endemic to the human mind.
The bankruptcy of such thinking in business has resulted in the emergence of the Creative Economy with a different kind of leadership and management based on treating employees and partners as thinking, feeling creative human beings and customers as people who deserve to be delighted.
It became clear to me in the early 1990s when for a couple of years I was a judge in the annual Loebner Prize Competition, an annual contest to find out if any computer could yet pass what is known as the Turing test: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.
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Austen then considers how strategic thinking relates to other explanations of human action, such as those involving emotions, habits, rules, social factors, and ideology.
Two years ago, thinking in herds, the entire human race seemed to have gone mad, stampeding out of stocks, and rushing for the relative safety of cash.
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The researchers also discussed the possibility that thinking machines might be a threat to human jobs, but honestly, having my job threatened was starting to seem like a relatively minor problem by then.
To be really successful you need to go a level or two deeper than most do in thinking about the potential user, and really understand human psychology.
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Such thinking permits the design of drug molecules to treat complex human diseases or to modify other difficult biological disorders.
He repeated his criticisms of the current direction of the US human spaceflight programme, saying it lacked ambition compared with the big thinking of the 1960s.
Perhaps, but watching closely my more spontaneous reactions and half-conscious thoughts, I can't help thinking that I too have a share in the part of human nature that is inclining towards evil.
Indeed, a new effort announced on September 23rd by three groups, including the United Nations Global Compact, is intended to help companies see human rights as a business issue that they need to incorporate into their thinking.
By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.
Throughout modern history, union leaders have shown a weakness for thinking that one of their core responsibilities is to discover some new way of human living on this earth.
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"New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats that climate-related migration poses to human security and well-being, " Warner said.
"The Human Genetics Commission is right to ask these questions because commercial organisations get into these areas quite quickly without thinking through the implications, " Dr Prior said.
There are many other design-thinking principles that entrepreneurs need to heed, such as the fact that products and services are bought by human beings, not target markets segmented into demographic categories.
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