Turing's five predictions in his 1951 lecture — how many have come true?
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-08
A resurfaced quote from Alan Turing's posthumously published 1951 lecture 'Intelligent Machinery: A Heretical Theory' lists five predictions: great opposition to thinking machines, intellectual job-loss worries, machines conversing to sharpen their wits, machines quickly outstripping human powers, and machines eventually taking control. The sharer argues 1-3 have landed, with #4 debatable.
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