Hartree’s Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) says that equipment such as electronic calculating machines cannot “think for itself”: the thinking is done beforehand by the designer and the operator, and all the machine can do is follow its instructions exactly. He quotes Lovelace’s statement on the Analytical Engine to the same effect.

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