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Can Machines Think?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

W. Mays
W. Mays
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University of Manchester.
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Mr. A. M. Turing was quoted in The Times about a year ago as saying it would be interesting to discover the degree of intellectual activity of which a machine was capable and to what extent it could think for itself. He has now pressed this suggestion further and given the results of his researches in an article called “Computing Machines and Intelligence,” together with a brief account of a “child-machine” which he has attempted to educate (Mind, October 1950). I intend to discuss this article in some detail and examine his claim that “machines can think.”

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 27 , Issue 101 , April 1952 , pp. 148 - 162
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1952

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