• DocumentCode
    111378
  • Title

    What turing himself said about the imitation game

  • Author

    Proudfoot, Diane

  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Jul-15
  • Firstpage
    42
  • Lastpage
    47
  • Abstract
    The imitation game, the recent biopic about Alan Turing\´s efforts to decipher Nazi naval codes, was showered with award nominations. It even won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. One thing it won\´t win any awards for, though, is its portrayal of the "imitation game" itself-Turing\´s proposed test of machine thinking, which hinges on whether a computer can convincingly imitate a person. The Turing test, as it is now called, doesn\´t really feature in the file. (Given that the movie gets so much of the history wrong, perhaps that\´s a good thing).
  • Keywords
    Turing machines; learning (artificial intelligence); Nazi naval codes; Turing machines; imitation game; machine thinking; Computers; Cryptography; Encoding; Game theoryu; History; Turing, Alan;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7131694
  • Filename
    7131694