Strange & Unusual Sayings
10,844 sayings found from the Modern era
Mother has been staying here, and we seem to be getting on a good deal better. I have been subjecting her to a good deal of sexual enlightenment and she seems to have stood up to it very well. There was a rather absurd dream I had the other night in …
Mother has been staying here, and we seem to be getting on a good deal better. I have been subjecting her to a good deal of sexual enlightenment and she seems to have stood up to it very well. There was a rather absurd dream I had the other night in …
The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject.
The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject.
Possibly a machine might be made to enjoy this delicious dish, but any attempt to make one do so would be idiotic.
Possibly a machine might be made to enjoy this delicious dish, but any attempt to make one do so would be idiotic.
Hyperboloids of wondrous light. Rolling for age through Space and Time Harbour there Waves which somehow Might Play out God's holy pantomime.
Hyperboloids of wondrous light. Rolling for age through Space and Time Harbour there Waves which somehow Might Play out God's holy pantomime.
If the man were to try and pretend to be the machine he would clearly make a very poor showing. He would be given away at once by slowness and inaccuracy in arithmetic.
If the man were to try and pretend to be the machine he would clearly make a very poor showing. He would be given away at once by slowness and inaccuracy in arithmetic.
Arguments against the hope of artificial intelligence included that 'you will never be able to make [a machine] to do' any of these: Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a sense of humour, tell right from wrong, make mista…
Arguments against the hope of artificial intelligence included that 'you will never be able to make [a machine] to do' any of these: Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a sense of humour, tell right from wrong, make mista…
This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.
This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
If it is accepted that real brains, as found in animals, and in particular in men, are a sort of machine it will follow that our digital computer suitably programmed, will behave like a brain...
If it is accepted that real brains, as found in animals, and in particular in men, are a sort of machine it will follow that our digital computer suitably programmed, will behave like a brain...
If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?