Alan Turing: The father of artificial intelligence…

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Alan Turing: Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Folly

At the height of World War II, as Allied ocean convoys and Nazi German U-boats played a deadly battle of hide and seek in what we now call the Battle of the Atlantic, another invisible battle was also being fought. According to Britain’s Imperial War Museum, it was a battle of information, pitting the German military’s encryption technology, called Enigma, against a team of Allied codebreakers working from a top-secret British site called Bletchley Park.

The leading British combatant in this maximum-stakes battle of wits was mathematician Alan Turing. Born in 1912, he was […]

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