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Claim · 1951 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Turing’s broadcast script ‘Can Digital Computers Think?’ (1951) quotes Lady Lovelace’s statement as Hartree had quoted it, and says that he agrees with her dictum as far as it goes but that its validity depends on how digital computers are used rather than how they could be used.

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