Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory
A talk by Alan Turing to the ’51 Society in Manchester, catalogued by the Turing Digital Archive as c. 1951 (AMT/B/4, carbon and typescript versions). It was later printed in Sara Turing’s memoir.
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- Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory (AMT/B/4) The Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge · publication date unknown · 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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