Computing Machinery And Intelligence

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generates information, without the authority to change the process in which it functions. The computer is only following instructions that “make it possible for a sequence of operations to be repeated over and over again until some condition is fulfilled, but in doing so to obey, not to fresh instructions on each repetition, but the same ones over and over again”(p.438). He then asserts that digital computers can be built and have been built that “in fact mimic the actions of the human computer very closely”(p.438). He also further proposes that a computer with an infinite capacity to store information could be constructed, in imitation of the unknown mental capacities of the human brain.
After going through a number of arguments against his view and a number of counter arguments in support of his beliefs, he comes to the conclusion 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 ...

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