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.
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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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 computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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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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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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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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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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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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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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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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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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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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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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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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