Alan Turing Quotes


We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.


Citations

Turing, Alan M. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind, vol. 59, no. 236, Oct. 1950, p. 460.

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Alan Turing
Alan Turing
  • Born: June 23, 1912
  • Died: June 7, 1954
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Mathematician

Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.