Turing predicted machine thinking would soon outstrip human minds once it started
acmoytoy · x · 2026-09-10
A reposted passage from Turing on the consequences of building thinking machines: he anticipated fierce opposition, especially from intellectuals afraid of losing their jobs, but argued they'd likely be wrong—humans would stay busy trying to understand what machines say and keeping their intelligence up to machines' standard.
He predicted that once machine thinking began, it wouldn't take long to outstrip human powers, and that machines—which wouldn't die—could converse with each other to sharpen their wits. A striking read in the LLM era.
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