Turing,+Alan

toc Turing Work on intelligent machines began after World War II. British computing engineer and mathematician Alan Turing may have been the first. In 1947 he gave the first lecture pertaining to this topic. ‘He also may have been the first to decide that AI (Artificial Intelligence) was best researched by programming computers rather than by building machines. By the late 1950s, there were many researchers on AI, and most of them were basing their work on programming computers.’ (McCarthy 2004)
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One of his biggest contributions was the Turing Test. The Turing Test is based on interactivity. ‘He argued that if the machine could successfully pretend to be human to a knowledgeable observer then you certainly should consider it intelligent.’ (McCarthy 2004) Philosophers were not satisfied with this test but most people thought it was a reasonable way to measure computer intelligence. ‘The observer could interact with the machine and a human by teletype (to avoid requiring that the machine imitate the appearance or voice of the person), and the human would try to persuade the observer that it was human and the machine would try to fool the observer.’ (McCarthy 2004)

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-McCarthy, John. (2004). “What is Artificial Intelligence?” Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Online at: .