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.
ALAN TURING
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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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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 can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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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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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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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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.
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