No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
ALAN TURINGA computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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