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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Alan Turing

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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
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
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
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
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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Children Education Mindset Technology
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Greatness Myself Science Technology
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
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

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