Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues Alan Turing’s 1950 paper sent AI down the wrong road. In his new book, he says two Turing assumptions\u2014that intelligence needs no body, and that imitation proves thought\u2014have misled 75 years of research. Denning names ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini as systems that manipulate words without understanding them, and warns that agentic machines may prove more dangerous than superintelligence itself.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues Alan Turing’s 1950 paper sent AI down the wrong road. In his new book, he says two Turing assumptions\u2014that intelligence needs no body, and that imitation proves thought\u2014have misled 75 years of research. Denning names ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini as systems that manipulate words without understanding them, and warns… Read More »Top computer scientist: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini don’t understand a word they say<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":121390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}