
This handsome British chap is directly responsible for your ability to visit a website; it’s safe to say that his contributions to early computer science saved millions of lives and now effect every living human being. Today, remember Alan Turing.
“Turing was the British WW II code breaker and early pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence who proposed an operational test of intelligence as a replacement for the philosophical question, “Can machines think?” [VIA KURZWEIL AI]
The Significance of Watson, by Ray Kurzweil “By the time the controversy dies down and it becomes unambiguous that nonbiological intelligence is equal to biological human intelligence, the AIs will already be thousands of times smarter than us.” [VIA KURZWEIL AI] Mind vs. Machine, by Brian Christian “THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY ISN’T JUST CHANGING HOW WE LIVE, IT’S RAISING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN.” [VIA THE ATLANTIC] Editor’s note – it’s currently Tuesday in Japan!