Intelligence rethought: AIs know us, but don't think like us

This question has been asked for centuries, from the golem of Jewish folklore to Frankenstein to I, Robot. There are various answers, but at least one computing pioneer knew well where she stood. "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything," said Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage's collaborator, in 1843, removing any doubt about what a computing machine can ever hope to do. "It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform," she added. "It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths."