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Quotes from Computing Machinery and Intelligence — Alan Turing

1912–1954 England

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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)

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)

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)

"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)

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)

If one wants to make a machine mimic the behaviour of the human computer in some complex operation one has to ask him how it is done, and then translate the answer into the form of an instruction table. Constructing instruction tables is usually described as "programming."

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Turing (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.