Artificial intelligence

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I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence

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Alan Turing

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Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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Scientific literature

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English

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1950 1950s 20th century

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Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind. Oxford University Press, 1950.

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

John R. Searle

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Artificial intelligence

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John R. Searle

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Minds, Brains, and Science

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English

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1984 1980s 20th century

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Searle, John R. "Minds, Brains, and Science." Reith Lectures. BBC Radio 4. 1984. Radio.

"Could a machine think?" my own view is that only a machine could think, and indeed only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines that had the same causal powers as brains... Whatever else intentionality is, it is a biological phenomenon, and it is as likely to be as causally dependent on the specific biochemistry of its origins as lactation, photosynthesis, or any other biological phenomena.

John R. Searle

Minds, Brains, and Programs

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Artificial intelligence

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John R. Searle

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Minds, Brains, and Programs Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Essay Journal

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Scientific literature

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English

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1980 1980s 20th century

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Searle, John R. "Minds, Brains, and Science." Reith Lectures. BBC Radio 4. 1984. Radio.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Ada Lovelace

On Charles Babbage's vision for a rudimentary computer.

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Artificial intelligence Computers

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Ada Lovelace

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Scientific literature

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English

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1843 1840s 19th century

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King, Augusta Ada. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals. Vol. 3, London: R. and J. E. Taylor, 1843.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F. Skinner

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Artificial intelligence Man and machine

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B.F. Skinner

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Contingencies of Reinforcement

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English

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1969 1960s 20th century

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Skinner, B. F. Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969, ch. 9.

We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

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Artificial intelligence Technological progress

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Vernor Vinge

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Speech

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English

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1993 1990s 20th century

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Vinge, Vernor. "Technological Singularity." VISION-21 Symposium. 30 Mar. 1993 - 31 Mar. 1993, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA. Speech.