In 1950, Alan Turing asked a question that would echo through decades of science, philosophy, and technology: Can machines think?
In this episode of Decode: Science, we unpack Turing’s seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” — a visionary work that introduced the idea of the Turing Test and challenged our assumptions about consciousness, language, and intelligence itself.
How did Turing define “thinking”? What objections did he anticipate? And how close are we today to passing his test?
Join us as we decode the origin of artificial intelligence — in Turing’s own words, and in the light of what came after.
Paper: https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf