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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954)
This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
A man provided with paper, pencil, and eraser, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Presumably the child-brain is something like a note-book as one buys it from the stationer's. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
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.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
These questions replace our original, "Can machines think?"
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
In this paper I deal only with automatic machines, and will therefore often omit the prefix ɑ-.
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
The machine may also change the square which is being scanned, but only by shifting it one place to right or left.
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
"Can machines think?"... The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game."
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954)
The machine is supplied with a "tape" (the analogue of paper) running through it, and divided into sections (called "squares") each capable of bearing a "symbol".
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
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 of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
Proposed Electronic Calculator (1946)