"Can Machines Think?" Obsession of Alan Turing

Walter Isaacson: Where Innovation Comes From

Many thinkers gave rise to the computer, including Alan Turing, who was obsessed with: "Can machines think?"

Alan Turing

Turing believed that in the future we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between machine and human.

Alan's Study

I stumbled on this short film (click on the caption to watch): Can you tell which of these two is machine and which is human?

Alan Turing is the subject of an upcoming film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.