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.
ALAN TURINGMathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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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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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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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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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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