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Machines Quotes by Alan Turing
- We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many…
- It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able…
- The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
- Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger…
- A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
- We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
- There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine…
- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- 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…
- In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are…
- 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…
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