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Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theorybears on ↓Intelligence explosion

Turing’s talk of about 1951 expects machines to outstrip human powers soon after machine thinking starts, and to converse with each other to sharpen their wits.

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Date: 1951 · event
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: Machines sharpen their wits by conversing with each other; no design or research feedback is stated.

Scope and limitsSuperiority and mutual sharpening, not an intelligence explosion through machine design.

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Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory (AMT/B/4)

The Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge · Publication date unknown

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Once the machine thinking method had started, Turing expects it soon to outstrip human powers; the machines would not die and would converse with each other to sharpen their wits.

Location in source Concluding paragraph, typescript p. 10 (scan 16)

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Authors: Alan M. Turing
Version: Archive scans of the carbon (p. 101, AMT/B/4/6) and the typescript (p. 10, AMT/B/4/16); the concluding paragraph read on both images for this collection. The carbon carries a typed insertion and a manuscript correction nearby.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Alan M. Turing, "Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory", typescript, Turing Digital Archive AMT/B/4, King’s College, Cambridge.
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Date. Approximate year in the King’s College catalogue (c. 1951); no exact lecture day or contemporary printing is established.

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