I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" — Alan Turing · Skopia

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I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Computing Machinery and Intelligence · 1950

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Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind. Oxford University Press, 1950.

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