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AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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