¿Puede pensar una máquina?
¿Puede pensar una máquina? The use of punishments and rewards can at best be a part of the teaching process. Roughly speaking, if the teacher has no other means of communicating to the pupil, the amount of information which can reach him does not exceed the total number of rewards and punishments applied. By the time a child has learnt to repeat «Casabianca» he would probably feel very sore indeed, if the text could only be discovered by a «Twenty Questions» technique, every «NO» taking the form of a blow. It is necessary therefore to have some other «unemotional» channels of communication. If these are available it is possible to teach a machine by punishments and rewards to obey orders given in some language, e.g., a symbolic language. These orders are to be transmitted through the «unemotional» channels. The use of this language will diminish greatly the number of punishments and rewards required.