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“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and the general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” -Alan Turing (1937)  Not quite right… and yet, not quite wrong either. 

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and the general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” -Alan Turing (1937) 

Not quite right… and yet, not quite wrong either. 

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3 months ago on February 08, 2012 at 09:33pm
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