Computers Are Amazing. They’re Not Intelligent

The amazing feats achieved by computers demonstrate our progress incoming up with algorithms that make the computer do valuable things forus. The computer itself, though, does nothing more than it ever did,which is to do whatever we know how to order it to do—and we order it todo things by issuing instructions in the form of elementary operationson bits, the 1s and 0s that make up computer code.– American Scholar