We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
ALAN TURINGMathematical reasoning may be regarded.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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