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Turing’s 1950 paper proposes programming a child-like machine and educating it, and says a machine could help make up its own programmes and modify them to achieve a purpose more effectively. Copy claim link
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Date 1950-10 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The child programme is educated and selected by an experimenter, and a self-programming machine is given no starting architecture for growth in intelligence. Scope and limits Education and self-programming toward an unspecified purpose; not a seed designed to redesign its own intelligence.
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence (offprint, AMT/B/19) ↗ Mind · 1950-10
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Paraphrase Instead of programming an adult mind directly, Turing proposes programming a child-like starting state and educating it, comparing child programmes by experiment.
Location in source Section 7, Learning Machines, printed p. 456 (scan 24), opening paragraphs
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Source details and check notes Authors A. M. Turing Version Original Mind offprint, scanned by the archive; printed pp. 448–449 read on the page images for this collection (scans 16–17). Offprint held by the Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind 59 (236), October 1950; offprint in the Turing Digital Archive, AMT/B/19. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted; the archive hosts the offprint with Oxford University Press’s permission. Page images are not reproduced.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Paraphrase from the pre-1996 candidate search’s inspection of the page image; not re-read for this collection. primary source Supports the claim
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (offprint, AMT/B/19) ↗ Mind · 1950-10
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Source excerpt “It may be used to help in making up its own programmes, or to predict the effect of alterations in its own structure. By observing the results of its own behaviour it can modify its own programmes so as to achieve some purpose more effectively.” Location in source Section 6 (5), printed p. 449 (scan 17), paragraph on a machine being its own subject matter
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Source details and check notes Authors A. M. Turing Version Original Mind offprint, scanned by the archive; printed pp. 448–449 read on the page images for this collection (scans 16–17). Offprint held by the Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind 59 (236), October 1950; offprint in the Turing Digital Archive, AMT/B/19. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted; the archive hosts the offprint with Oxford University Press’s permission. Page images are not reproduced.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Read on the page image of printed p. 449 (scan 17) for this collection. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Issue month of Mind, vol. LIX, no. 236, as catalogued for the offprint.
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