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.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Turing predicts that by the end of the 20th century, language and education will evolve to accept machine cognition as a valid concept.
- In plain terms
- People will eventually agree that machines can think.
- What can you take from it?
- Language shapes our acceptance of technological reality.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does language limit our understanding of new tech?
Another view
The timeline he predicted was overly optimistic for general public acceptance.
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