I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.