Alan Turing
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRSwas a pioneering English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth23 June 1912
CityLondon, England
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 contradicted.
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.