Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

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

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

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

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

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.

In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.