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.
ALAN TURINGI 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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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