Turing test

It should not be surprising to state that there are many racists and racial tensions held within modern day America. From the early years of colonization, White-Europeans settled on this western land and after some time brought African-heritage individuals to America to be bought and sold as slaves. Centuries have passed since those days, but it seems the tense racial climate of the past still haunts the present. Society is currently saturated with technology that did not exist decades or…

The topic that is discussed is Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of mimicking human intelligence using computers. AI as a science, “surprisingly, tasks which we find hard, computers find easy and vice versa. Trying to understand why this might be is the scientific side of AI - it is the attempt to understand our own intelligence. In this way, AI cooperates with other sciences like psychology, and philosophy of mind, which tries to understand what it means to be…

misfortunes and bloodshed, until a certain man stepped into the battle to alter the outcome of war. The man’s name was Alan Turing, and his intellectual mind of computer technology gave a gift for the Allied Powers to counterattack Nazi Germany. With the help of the codebreaking machine Bombe it has done a big help on hacking into German communications of World War II. Alan Turing help during the war may have not been in actual combat, but instead with his help from digital communications gave…

Statement of Purpose “How do we ask the turtle to trace out a circle? Remember, it only knows how to walk in straight lines and turn around.” Playing with the Logo turtle on screen in sixth grade was my first exposure to computer science. I was immediately fascinated by the idea of approximating a smooth circle with a regular polygon of, say, 360 sides. Staring at the “circle” on screen, I could not quite digest the fact that it was something produced in a fundamentally different way compared to…

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book written by Steven Levy about the early days and what he defined as “True Hackers”. This book starts off talking about the Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1950s all the way to the “Gamer Hackers” of the 1980s. It describes the different equipment that was used during the periods, the skills of the hackers, and the reasons they either became hackers or was interested in computers. Hackers in today’s society are not the same as in the 1950s.…

INTRODUCTION: The ability of a machine to act and react like humans and resemble the intelligence like them is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not a system but it is embedded inside the system like computer. It is a broad branch of computer science which defines the study of intelligent agents. Like humans, the machines also perceive its environment and take the actions accordingly to achieve their goals. The term “Artificial Intelligence” is applied when a machine mimics “cognitive”…

discovered that Germany was preparing for war and gave a replica of the Bomba to the French and British during a meeting in 1939. After the British assembled a team of mathematicians at Bletchley Park codebreaking center, British mathematician Alan Turing developed the Bombe. This new machine also contained many enigma rotor wheels which searched for the rotor order, starting position, and plugboard settings. This would take an extremely long amount of time (especially since German changed the…

Allen Turing. Cracker of the enigma code, father of computer science, and if brought into the 21st century as my classmate in the Arts & Science Program, my best friend. You see, Allen Turing and I have much in common; we both are interested in technology, both have a fondness for biology, and both enjoy riddles. This would lead us to originally bonding over our shared interests. However, after a few weeks of being friends, we would become closer due to our shared experience going through the…

The Enigma of the 20th Century “Send the U-Boat to (51° 15' 43", -6° 45' 4"); attack at 15:00.” This could have been a message that was ciphered using a secret code during times of war. Cryptography, the study of securely coding messages, has been around for thousands of years (The Enigma Machine Explained). It started out with pencil-and-paper codes, made of substituting letters for each other in the alphabet. Then, there were more geometric codes, relying on using grids to write out messages…

The 1999 film by Andy and Lana Wachowski, The Matrix, introduced a generation to an important epistemological question: How can a person be certain of what his senses tell him about the world he lives in? This question, explored modernly in the film by portraying reality as nothing more than a computer simulation implanted into humans’ sensory receptors by a race of intelligent super-computers, is nevertheless an idea that has intrigued philosophical thinkers for many ages. For example, in 1641,…