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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.

Alan Turing

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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Children Education Mindset Technology
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Mathematics Reason
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
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
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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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
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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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
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
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
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
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

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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