"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Book by Alan Turing, 1950.
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
Alan Turing was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his pivotal role in developing theoretical computer science and breaking the Enigma code during WWII.
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