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 be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. - Alan Turing
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
- Alan Turing
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded. - Alan Turing
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. - Alan Turing
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game. - Alan Turing
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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". - Alan Turing
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".
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. - Alan Turing
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. - Alan Turing
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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