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Claim · 1948 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Turing’s National Physical Laboratory report ‘Intelligent Machinery’ (1948) lists, among reasons for assuming that machinery cannot show intelligent behaviour, the view that any intelligence a machine shows is nothing but a reflection of its creator’s, and answers that this view is like giving a teacher the credit for a pupil’s discoveries.

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Intelligent Machinery (National Physical Laboratory report) → contests → A machine can only do what it is ordered to do

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