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Alan Turing

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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Development Myself Powerful
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
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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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
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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Believe Education End Expectation Oneself Thinking Word
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence Technology
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
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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Act Feeling Goodness People Satisfaction Violence
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Discipline Education Men
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology

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