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

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From his seminal paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', published in the journal Mind, Volume 59, No. 236, pp. 433-460.

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1950

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Philosophical

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2251260

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