We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
ALAN TURINGScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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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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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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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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