Can Computers be "intelliegnt?" Can a computer "think?"

Computers can't "think" outside the limits of their own programming. A computer isn't going to wonder where the universe came from.

10 PRINT "WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?"
20 GOTO 10

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But yeah, I think iintelligence is being able to look at a problem and not just see the answer and the steps it took to get there, but also see WHY it works that way. A chess computer is actually pretty stupid - it still calculates the result of, say, sacrificing your queen to get a pawn all the way to the end of the "game" it's currently calculating, whereas a person would look at it and say "WHY would I do something like that?".

Same as the "Can a machine think?" question we had when I took Epistemology during my last semester.

My thoughts on this matter is, No. A computer cannot think. And... Computers are digital computers, which is capable of Storing, Executing, and Controlling. Storing is simply the storing of data, Executing is the carrying out of the commands, and Controlling has things to do with the "If, Else," "Goto" statements.

Also, my understanding of intelligence is... well, or I should have said, a person who is potentially intelligent means one who is capable of thinking. Therefore, if someone cannot think, we can deduce that the person is not intelligent.

Like... someone who said, "Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto from thoughts and emotions," could we say that machine is capable of thinking.

I’m not sure dude… If D2BS is all that insolence says it is. Computers may be pretty close to thinking for themselves.. j/k

Computer can think. It's just that they can't think beyond their limits.

If a man built a computer to think exactly like a man, to program it with everything a man would say, think, do, than it will think only in the big programmed circle. Computers aren't stupid. It's just people made them to take orders from people. But if a computer was made to automatically do things on its own based on the peoples actions around it, then it can (according to the Terminator series) kick your ass and say "Asta la vista, baby." I don't know what I'm talking about I'm just thinking and typing what I think maybe its the high talking but the moral of the story is:

DON'T FEED YOUR COMPUTER AFTER MIDNIGHT! AND DON'T POUR WATER ON IT OR IT WILL MULTIPLY!

"can't think beyond their limits."

"Computers can't "think" outside the limits of their own programming."