The paper in which AlanTuring originally proposed the TuringTest:

 Alan M. Turing
 ''Computing machinery and intelligence''
 MIND - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy
 Volume 59 No. 236, October 1950, pp. 433-460
 http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm

"[...] The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the [20th] century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. [...]"
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