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Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers (2011) (quoteinvestigator.com)
2 points by Tomte on Aug 12, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Smart quote, although the concept is easy enough that probably many people have come up with it.

Explains why math education so often fails. You shouldn't teach pupils to answer problems, you should teach them to ask questions and give them the tools others have successfully employed to solve some of them.

Additionally this is quite a huge constraint of computers not yet having developed intelligence.




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