"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful……" — Alan Turing
"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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32 Quotes by Alan Turing
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best…
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Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time…
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I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been…
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble…
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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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The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There…
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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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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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is…
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