Alan Turing, the man widely considered the father of artificial intelligence, proved to be a child prodigy as early as age 6, saved thousands of lives in the second great war, set the stage for what we perceive as the modern day personal computer, made advancements in Biology just as well as computer science, and died to suicide after being charged with “gross Indecency” by the very government he helped during the war. How could someone go from being as vital of a person, as Winston Churchill put it “Turing made the single biggest contribution to the war effort” to being slandered and shamed to the point of ending it all? Possibly a larger crime, the errant holes in the investigation regarding Alan Turing’s death. Alan Turing did many
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The tape is a long strip divided into several cells each of these would have a symbol from a finite set that would be interpreted as a command by the head. The head refers to a device that would read the tape and write to the tape as either the tape was moved through it or the head itself would move along the tape. The direction can change so it has the ability to go back if need be. A state register would do just that, and register the current state of the Turing machine and stores it Turing compared this to a human being’s “state of mind”. Finally the table’s job was to hold instructions and uses them to tell the machine what to do. Tom Siegfried offers a more concise description “A possible rule might be to move one square to the left and write a 1; or move one square to the right and write a 0; or stay on that square, erase the 1 and leave the square blank. By following well-thought-out rules, such a mechanism could compute any number that could be computed (and write it as a string of Os and Is).” Turing proved that his Turing Machine would be able to compute any mathematical problem, given it could be represented as an algorithm. Turing used the Turing Machine to find an answer to the …show more content…
It was now that he conceptualized his Automatic Computing Engine or ACE. The ACE was what is called a stored-program computer, meaning that it stores its program instruction in electronic memory. However due to the fact that the knowledge he was using to make it was also used during the wartime he was forbade to use some it and lost some motivation to attempt to complete it. He spent a year in absence and it was during this time that a Pilot version of the ace was constructed and was functional; it did not however fulfill everything that Turing’s design would have. Nevertheless it was still a step forward in the evolution of the computer and gave way to more commercialized computers like the English electric Deuce. Around this time Turing also wrote a paper he titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. In this paper Turing conceptualized his famous Turing test. This was a test made to test the intelligence and human-likeness of a program. The way the test worked was that there would be one human giving questioning one computer and one human while the person giving the questions did not know which was which. After the questioning, the questioner would have to try to pick which was which and if they were wrong then by Turing’s standards the program could be called intelligent. Originally the test started with a phase where the interrogator would quiz a woman and man and see if they can tell the difference
The tape is a long strip divided into several cells each of these would have a symbol from a finite set that would be interpreted as a command by the head. The head refers to a device that would read the tape and write to the tape as either the tape was moved through it or the head itself would move along the tape. The direction can change so it has the ability to go back if need be. A state register would do just that, and register the current state of the Turing machine and stores it Turing compared this to a human being’s “state of mind”. Finally the table’s job was to hold instructions and uses them to tell the machine what to do. Tom Siegfried offers a more concise description “A possible rule might be to move one square to the left and write a 1; or move one square to the right and write a 0; or stay on that square, erase the 1 and leave the square blank. By following well-thought-out rules, such a mechanism could compute any number that could be computed (and write it as a string of Os and Is).” Turing proved that his Turing Machine would be able to compute any mathematical problem, given it could be represented as an algorithm. Turing used the Turing Machine to find an answer to the …show more content…
It was now that he conceptualized his Automatic Computing Engine or ACE. The ACE was what is called a stored-program computer, meaning that it stores its program instruction in electronic memory. However due to the fact that the knowledge he was using to make it was also used during the wartime he was forbade to use some it and lost some motivation to attempt to complete it. He spent a year in absence and it was during this time that a Pilot version of the ace was constructed and was functional; it did not however fulfill everything that Turing’s design would have. Nevertheless it was still a step forward in the evolution of the computer and gave way to more commercialized computers like the English electric Deuce. Around this time Turing also wrote a paper he titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. In this paper Turing conceptualized his famous Turing test. This was a test made to test the intelligence and human-likeness of a program. The way the test worked was that there would be one human giving questioning one computer and one human while the person giving the questions did not know which was which. After the questioning, the questioner would have to try to pick which was which and if they were wrong then by Turing’s standards the program could be called intelligent. Originally the test started with a phase where the interrogator would quiz a woman and man and see if they can tell the difference