Able Quote by Alan Turing

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

— Fei-Fei Li

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and…

— Donald Knuth

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

— Nicholas Negroponte

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

— James William Benson

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking…

— Seth Shostak

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting…

— J. C. R. Licklider

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however,…

— Tom Chatfield

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans…

— Moshe Vardi

My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally…

— John L. Casti