1943: Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing helps build The British Colossus computers
- Decoded coded language. Created mathematical abstraction, "Turing Machine"
1991: Start of annual Loebner Prize Competition for Chatterbots
- Inspired by the Turing test
Summary:
- Early computers were similar to calculators; "number crunchers"
- Wasn't noticed that computers had the capacity to manipulate words
- Shift from numbers to words --> email, word processing, voice recognition, basic commands ("ok")
- Turing develops a theoretical machine that can solve any computable problem --> Turing writes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
- Turing asks question, can a computer pass as a human? within a philosphical context (Turing Test)
- Turing anticpates human-computer dialogue occuring, important in that it recognized a computer as a "thinking" machine
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