No computer has ever played anything.
No computer has ever played.
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> No computer has ever played.
So I mentioned, in a comment here a little more than a year ago,
this tome:
_Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, Volume 1 & 2_
by Margaret A. Boden (Oxford University Press, 2006)
[ https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2015/12/three-fronts-in-uploading-discussion.html ]
There are some entertaining YouTube videos of Maggie Boden:
Interview of Professor Maggie Boden, March 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP9EzwsI4T0
Professor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRAUooVeXY
Margaret Boden - Creativity & AI - Asking the Right Questions - Interview at Oxford University 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEXIOiAsaw
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