# Life Requires More Than Machine Answers by Kevin Slavin > "For as long as thinking machines lack the limbic presence and imprecision of a chicken, computers will keep doing what they're so good at: providing answers. And so long as life is about more than answers, humans—and yes, even chickens—will stay in the loop." > **— Kevin Slavin**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26124) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Kevin Slavin; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Embodied Cognition|Embodied Cognition]] - [[wiki/Affective Computing|Affective Computing]] - [[wiki/Biological Intelligence Operating System|Biological Intelligence Operating System]] - [[wiki/Human Intelligence|Human Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "For as long as thinking machines lack the limbic presence and imprecision of a chicken, computers will keep doing what they're so good at: providing answers. And so long as life is about more than answers, humans—and yes, even chickens—will stay in the loop." — Kevin Slavin, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-kevin-slavin-life-requires-more-machine-answers ```