Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
ALAN TURINGA computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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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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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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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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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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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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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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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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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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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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