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Alan Mathison Turing foi um matemático, cientista da computação, lógico, criptoanalista, filósofo e biólogo teórico inglês. Ele foi altamente influente no desenvolvimento da ciência da computação teórica, fornecendo uma formalização dos conceitos de algoritmo e computação com a máquina de Turing, que pode ser considerada um modelo de um computador de propósito geral. Turing é amplamente considerado o pai da ciência da computação teórica.
“Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.”
“This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be. We have to have some experience with the machine before we really know its capabilities. It may take years before we settle down to the new possibilities, but I do not see why it should not enter any one of the fields normally covered by the human intellect, and eventually compete on equal terms.”
“The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.”
“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.”
“Presumably the child-brain is something like a note-book as one buys it from the stationer's. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.”
“It is customary... to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some peculiarly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. ... I cannot offer any such comfort, for I believe that no such bounds can be set.”
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