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Can Digital Computers Think?

Alan Turing’s script for a talk broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 15 May 1951, held as an annotated typescript in the Turing Digital Archive (AMT/B/5).

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  • Can Digital Computers Think? (AMT/B/5) The Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge · publication date unknown · Annotated broadcast script; p. 6a (AMT/B/5/7, scan 7) read on the page image for this collection.

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