The Turing Exception Quotes

“Emotions are an indicator of evolved intelligence, an optimization of the system to shortcut logic circuits and reduce computational load.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception

“Did you know what Thomas Edison used to say when he kept trying to make light bulbs and nothing worked?” “ ‘I have not failed. I’ve found ten thousand ways that don’t work.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception

“Mike had explained that agile software development, intentional community, and group dynamics had emerged from a single pool of primordial psychological research and indigenous traditions.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception

“But these AI lived at anywhere from a hundred to ten thousand times the rate of humans. In a calendar year they lived as much as ten thousand years.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception

“Yet even with humankind’s love of technology, and even though the standard of living had continually increased over nearly twenty years of AI-dominated civilization, there had always been an undercurrent of opposition, people who blamed societal ills on artificial intelligence. There had been extensive challenges, from technologically-caused unemployment to a renewed questioning of the purpose of life.”
― William Hertling, The Turing Exception