We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
ALAN TURING
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful 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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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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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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 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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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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