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

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

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

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.

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.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

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