Turing’s ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ (Mind, October 1950) answers what it heads ‘Lady Lovelace’s Objection’: it says the machines in question may in a sense have had the property, that machines take him by surprise with great frequency, and that the view that a machine can only do what we know how to order it to do appears strange in the face of learning machines.

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