I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think. Turing lies with men. Therefore machines do not think. Yours in distress, Alan.
Computer science, codebreaking
I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think. Turing lies with men. Therefore machines do not think. Yours in distress, Alan.
Computer science, codebreaking
From a letter to his friend Philip Newman.
1952
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"We are not interested in the fact that the machine can do well, but in the fact that it can do badly."
Humorous"Possibly a machine might be made to enjoy this delicious dish, but any attempt to make one do so would be idiotic."
Strange & Unusual"The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life."
Strange & Unusual"We are trying to construct a machine which will be able to do everything that a man can do."
Humorous"The whole problem can be reduced to the question: Can machines think?"
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