How Alan Turing laid the foundations for AI: The Turing test explained

Can machines think? As artificial intelligence technology grows ever more useful and commonplace, it's a question that has computer scientists scratching their heads.

But it was first asked more than half a century ago - by the ""father of modern computing and artificial intelligence"", Alan Turing.

Get with the program and discover the moving story of Turing's life, his many legacies to computer science and society, and find out how his work is still central to modern artificial intelligence and computing.

Delve deeper into our relationship with artificial intelligence in AI: More than Human, in collaboration with the Barbican Centre http://g.co/aibarbican

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