Turing quip goes viral: a machine expected to be infallible cannot also be intelligent
scott_draves · x · 2026-10-18
A quip quoting Alan Turing — "if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent" — is circulating widely on X, resonating as a neat rebuttal to demands that AI must be perfect to be useful. The line comes from Turing's 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."
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