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Claim · 1947-02-20 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Turing’s lecture of 20 February 1947 says that when a machine with self-modifying instruction tables makes progress its makers had not foreseen, one is obliged to regard the machine as showing intelligence.

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Lecture to the London Mathematical Society → articulates → A machine could think

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