A quote about thinking machines attributed to the father of computer science is likely a paraphrase
If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?
Alleged date: 1951
From a BBC programme.
This quote captures Turing's ideas but the exact wording cannot be traced to any verified primary source. It appears to be a modernized paraphrase of ideas from his landmark 1950 paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence.'
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