Alan Turing on Learning Machines

We cannot expect to find a good child-machine at the first attempt. One must experiment with teaching one such machine and see how well it learns. One can then try another and see if it is better or worse. There is an obvious connection between this process and evolution, by the identifications Structure of the child-machine = Hereditary material Changes of the child-machine = Mutations Natural selection = Judgement of the experimentor One may hope, however, that this process will be more e...