Turing believed by the year 2000, people would accept the idea of A.I.

"I believe that at the end of the 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," he said in 1947.

“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers," he said during a lecture in 1951. "They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control."