Alan Turing: £50

Have you heard of The Turing Test?

It is a test in Artificial Intelligence to see if a human can determine whether they are talking to a machine or a human.

It is named after Alan Turing, British mathematician, wartime codebreaker and computer pioneer, who will be the face of the new £50 note entering circulation on his birthday, 23 June. Read more on him at the New Scientist here.

If you are interested in the Turing Test and AI we highly recommend the following sort clip:

To read more about the Turing test and its limitations, read this short article.

And if this has got your exponential curious juices flowing, we pose another question for you: Can a computer write poetry?