Grady Booch: the mind may be computable, but calling today's AI 'thinking' is emaciated language
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-28
Legendary software engineer and IBM Fellow Grady Booch pushes back on AI consciousness claims: he has reason to believe the mind is computable, but asserts that calling any contemporary AI 'thinking' or 'conscious' represents a particularly emaciated meaning of those words — and suggests such authors profoundly misunderstand what it means to be human.
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