Becoming tin men
The Occasional Pamphlet 2023-09-22
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 […]