雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(121)
Alan would have liked the idea of training a boy machine to take the initiative.
He did work out an example of modifying a 'paper machine' into a universal machine by these means,
他認爲上面那種"移植"的方法是一種作弊，but decided it was a 'cheat', because his method amounted to working out the exact internal structure, the 'character' of the machine, and then correcting it — more like codebreaking than teaching.
因爲這相當於解構了機器的內部特性，並對它進行了改造。這更像是在破解密碼，而不是在訓練。
It was all very laborious on paper, and he was eager to take the next step:
他迫切地將論文推進到下一步：I feel that more should be done on these lines.
我認爲，更多的工作還要放在這個方向上。I would like to investigate other types of unorganised machine, and also to try out organising methods that would be more nearly analogous to our 'methods of education'.
我要研究各種類型的無組織機器，並找出最適合人腦的"訓練方法"的組織結構。I made a start on the latter but found the work altogether too laborious at present.
我已經做了一些前期工作，但我發現，在目前階段，這一目標太難實現，When some electronic machines are in actual operation I hope that they will make this more feasible.
如果使用一些真正的電子機器來進行研究，我認爲會更具有可行性。It should be easy to make a model of any particular machine that one wishes to work on within such a (computer) instead of having to work with a paper machine as at present.
用一臺現實中的特定機器來建立模型，比用想象中的機器要容易得多，If also one decided on quite definite 'teaching policies' these could also be programmed into the machine.
只要確定了具體的訓練策略，就可以馬上編程輸入機器。One would then allow the whole system to run for an appreciable period, and then break in as a kind of 'inspector of schools' and see what progress had been made.
這樣就可以讓整個系統運行一段可接受的時間，然後就像學校裏的督學一樣，檢查一下它取得了哪些進步。
