Session 8b :: Alan Turing

31.12.2018

Order of the day

Narratio :: The imitation game Repetitio :: Introduction to information theory Questio :: Can machines think ? Lectio :: Turing machine Turing test ...
31.12.2013

The imitation game

a 2014 movie adaptation of the book Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) 8 Oscar nominations, one Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay story about life, work and death o...
31.12.2018

Question of the day

Can machines think ?
31.12.2018

What does it mean "to think" ?

your definitions dictionary definition philosopher's definition What do You think?
01.01.1950

philosopher's definition of "thinking"

What I want to tell You is ... that "thinking" consists of execution of operation with signs. * * Origin of this quote is to be sought from in some later works of L.Wittgenstein.
31.12.2018

Descartes

A.M.T. OBE FRS (23.6.1912 - 7.6.1954) an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist father of theore...
01.01.1936

Halting Problem

On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the "Entscheidungsproblem" (1936) halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer...
01.01.1936

a Turing machine #1

A "theoretical" machine consisting of tape with discrete symbols reading/writing header table of rules tape-moving mechanism Visualization of the Tur...
01.01.1936

Universal Turing machine

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. If this machine U is supplied with a tape on the beginning of which is written t...
01.01.1950

Turing test

"A TT is a way how to address the question "Can machines think?" in a scientifically plausible ye deeply empathic way. More concretely, Turing (1950) proposes that the performan...
01.01.1950

Computational machinery and intelligence (1950)

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with defnitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think".(Turing, 1950)
31.12.2018

Exercicio :: Musical Turing Test

You are going to hear two pieces of music. One is composed and performed by humans, another is composed and generated by an artificial system. You are going to hear both pieces ...