Alan Turing

"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."

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Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 442, 1950.

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Alan Turing

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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