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Alan Turing

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.
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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
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Evidence Ideas Science
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
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Freedom Principle Science
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason

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