We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
ALAN TURINGOne 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”.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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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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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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