Prediction · AGI

Alan Turing on AGI

Deputy director, Computing Machine Laboratory, University of Manchester

Said 1951

If machines capable of thinking were built, they would probably surpass human intellectual powers soon afterward.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

A conditional forecast of rapid improvement after machine thinking begins. It provides no calendar date for the first thinking machine; the surviving text is dated approximately 1951.

Original terminology

machine thinking