Becoming tin men

The Occasional Pamphlet 2015-08-18

Summary:

From the 2015 introduction to the 1965 novel The Tin Men by Michael Frayn: “I hadn’t in those days heard of the Turing Test—Alan Turing’s proposal that a computer could be said to think if its conversational powers were shown to be indistinguishable from a human being’s—so I didn’t realise that what I was suggesting […]

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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2015/08/03/becoming-tin-men/

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Tags:

alan turing

Authors:

Stuart Shieber

Date tagged:

08/18/2015, 14:36

Date published:

08/03/2015, 15:42