A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
ALAN TURINGWe may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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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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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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