Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
Context: "Can machines think?"... The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game." It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart front the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B... We now ask the question, "What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?" Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, "Can machines think?"
Source: Mechanical Intelligence: Collected Works of A.M. Turing
Dijkstra (1984) The threats to computing science http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html (EWD898).
1980s
“Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!”
Electronic Tutors (1980)
1980s
Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Source: Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis
“Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.”
'Two Essays on Theodore Roethke'
Essays and reviews, As Of This Writing (2003)
“If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!”
Autobiography, Arno Penzias, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 (provided in 2004)
“I can think of nothing else than this machine.”
in a letter to a friend, Dr. Lind, April 29, 1765.
Leontief (1983) " National perspective: The definition of problem and opportunity http://books.google.nl/books?id=hS0rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3", in: National Academies, The Long-term Impact of Technology on Employment and Unemployment: A National Academy of Engineering Symposium, June 30, 1983. p. 3.
