Sir Clive Sinclair compares AI with humans; 1984

Sir Clive Sinclair, speaking in 1984, comparing the differences and similarities between humans and computers with artificial intelligence, stating that the only fundamental difference is humans have souls. “Imagination seems to be some sort of process of random thoughts being generated in the mind and the conscious mind selecting from a... or some part of the brain anyway perhaps even below the conscious mind, selecting from a pool of ideas and allying through some and blocking others and yes, a machine can do the same thing. In fact, we can only say a machine is fundamentally different from a human being, eventually always fundamentally, if we believe in a soul. So that boils down to religious matter. If human beings have souls then clearly machines won’t and there will always be a fundamental difference. If you don’t believe humans have souls, then machines can do anything and everything that a human does.” (NBSF439W - AEVZ001J)