From Leonardo da Vinci and Tesla to AI
Visionaries, automata, and whether a machine can think.
What is the Turing Test, and what does it have to do with AI?Turing’s imitation game, what it actually measured, and why labs still argue about it.
Did Leonardo da Vinci design a machine controlled by AI?The mechanical knight, the self-propelled cart, Mark Rosheim, NASA — and why automata are not AI.
Did Nostradamus write about AI?What the centuries actually say, and why modern readings keep bolting intelligence onto old verse.
Did Tesla’s theories predict AI?Tesla’s remote control, the telautomaton, and how far that is from a learning machine.
Which visionaries actually predicted artificial intelligence?From automata and calculating engines to Turing — who saw a thinking machine coming.
The case against Searle’s Chinese RoomThe standard objections to the Chinese Room, and what they do to claims about understanding.
The Symbol Grounding ProblemHow can a token mean anything? Harnad’s problem, and why chatbots still sit on ungrounded symbols.
John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment, explainedA room, a rulebook, and the claim that syntax is not semantics.
Embodied cognition, explainedWhy some researchers say intelligence needs a body, not just a weight file.
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