The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false.
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"The human brain is a very complex machine, but it is still a machine."
"I am a homosexual. I have been convicted of gross indecency. I have been subjected to chemical castration."
"If a machine can pass the Turing Test, then it is intelligent."
"The future belongs to those who can master the art of information."
"There are many questions which we shall have to answer, for example, what is the nature of consciousness?"
From his paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', published in the journal Mind.
Date: 1950
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