Alan Turing

Alan Turing, The Man’s Mind Of Enigma Of Computer Technology, Changed Modern Society, And The Outcome Of WWII In December 1941 Nazi Germany, and Japan declared war on the United States, and though this was a groundbreaking event for everyone, it didn’t stop one man from London. During this given time of war there would be a hero from not the actual war itself, but emerge inside the mind of that person. Thus it impacted everything that was going on, and not just the war, but technology itself.…

Turing first describes an “imitation game” that he believes would be a good test for artificial intelligence,6 then attempts to argue against the attacks that skeptics level on his artificial intelligence theories. He later admits that he “has no very convincing arguments of a positive nature to support my views,”7 as technology has not yet caught up with the concepts that he proposes. Turing 's work, published less than a decade before the creation…

“In 1952, (Alan) Turing was found guilty on three counts of ‘gross indecency contrary to Section II of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885’” (Irving). He chose hormonal therapy over going to jail. Shortly after that on June 7th, 1954 he allegedly committed suicide after biting out of an apple dipped in cyanide. Approximately half a century later, Alan Turing was given a royal pardon by the queen in 2013. Such was the life of Alan Turing. The downward spiral began in Alan’s life because being…

declared war on Germany, Alan Turing and his team worked together to break the code of the Enigma machine and thus have access to the German military communication ( SOURCE). This essay is about the cryptanalysis of Enigma. In order to clearly explain this process, in this essay I will focus on the Enigma machine, the Bombe Machine and Alan Turing. Before World War II and the Bombe machine, Alan Turing has proven to be a highly intellectual student since the early age. Turing was born…

the struggle behind the character’s failures. The first hour of The Imitation Game demonstrates the growing frustration of the team trying to break the enigma code. They try their hardest in every possible way they can, but they do not succeed until Turing miraculously discovers that the machine must be programmed to a word or phrase that it would be able to recognize in most, if not all, Nazi messages. I think the film has a decent way of portraying the mathematics, but it could explain more…

In his essay, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing poses the question, “Can machines think?” (433). Turing takes the position that machines can, indeed, think depending on how one defines thought. Although he states that he “should begin with the definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think,’” he does not directly provide the reader with his definition of thought (433). Instead, he spends a lengthy amount of time exploring a replacement question that manifests…

The topic of why humans are the way we are is one that has caused some of the greatest thinkers of human history to spend years pondering. Along with this pondering, questions have risen that has caused many controversies over the years. The questions include things such as “What is the mind?” “Where is it found?” “Why do we experience what we do?” “How do we know what I am seeing and experiencing is the same thing that you are experiencing?” And perhaps one of the biggest questions that has…

He developed the Turing Test, which measures for levels of intelligence in a machine, based on how "human-like" the machine seems in a "regular conversation" with a human. According to Turing, the actual human should not be able to sense that they are interacting with a machine. If a human is unable to distinguish whether they are speaking to a machine or a human after a few minutes of conversation, then the machine has passed the Turing test, and is deemed an "intelligent" machine…

This Documentary looks at four brilliant mathematicians; Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing for their groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, but also for the mental anguish and personal tragedy in their lives. How big is infinity? What is thermodynamics? These seemingly simple questions are what drove four brilliant mathematicians to insanity and ultimately suicide. “Dangerous Knowledge” delves into the deeper side of mathematics by trying to understand nature through mathematics,…

possibilities. The main points to this chapter were the arguments and objections that were trying to answer the following question “Could Machines Think?”. These arguments consisted of the Piecemeal-Replacement Argument, The Tipping Point Objection, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room argument. This chapter is composed out off arguments and objections that are trying to prove that robots can think. The Piecemeal-Replacement Argument stated that machines could think, and it involved an…