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 people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.
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
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.
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".
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded. - Alan Turing
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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.
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game. - Alan Turing
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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.
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