Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
ALAN TURING
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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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.
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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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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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