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The Turing Problem

2012-03-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·23m 3s ·by WNYC Studios
The Turing Problem
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About this episode

100 years ago this year, the man who first conceived of the computer age was born. His name was Alan Turing. He was also a math genius, a hero of World War II and he is widely considered to be the father of artificial intelligence. But the world wasn’t kind to Alan Turing. In 1952, he was arrested a