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
Link To Document