A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
ALAN TURINGInstead 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.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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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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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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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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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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