McCrory is here and would like to speak with you." The machine recognized his voice and turned itself on. The gentle ping of the intercom cut through his thoughts. Normally the stark beauty of this soothed and relaxed him not today. The evening shadows of the ocotillo and cactus painted long lines on the gray sands of the desert before him. The red sky behind the San Ysidro mountain range to the west threw russet light upon the Santa Rosa Mountains that stretched along the northern horizon. He turned about in his chair to look at the spectacular desert sunset.
He was not worried, not afraid just disturbed. Beckworth, the Chairman of Megalobe Industries, was disturbed, though years of control prevented any outward display of his inner concern. Nevertheless 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." Alan Turing, 1950ġ Ocotillo Wells, California FebruJ. But because it is so hard to define thinking he proposed to start with an ordinary digital computer and then asked whether, by increasing its memory and speed, and providing it with a suitable program, it might be made to play the part of a man? His answer: "The question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Turing, one of the earliest pioneers of computer science, considered the question of whether a machine could ever think. First Printed in Paperback October, 1993 formatted by Brrazo 01/2004 For Julie, Margaret and Henry: Moira and Todd- A story of your tomorrow. 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 A Time Warner Company Printed in the United States of America Originally published in hardcover by Warner Books. Roberts Cover illustration by Bob Eggleton Cover design by Don Puckey Cover photo by The Image Bank Warner Books, Inc. Questar® is a registered trademark of Warner Books, Inc. WARNER BOOKS A Time Warner Company WARNER BOOKS EDITIONĬopyright © 1992 by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky All rights reserved.
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