We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position.
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"The machine has to be able to do something which it has never been programmed to do."
"The human mind is a pattern-matching machine."
"The value of a result is not measured by the time it took to get it."
"Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?"
"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 contradicte…"
From his paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', published in the journal Mind.
Date: 1950
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