We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

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.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

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

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".

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

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.