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Imitation Game

Great Britain · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1950

Alan Mathison Turing1950

Science / Technology

Recasts the question of whether machines can think as the operational imitation game later known as the Turing Test.

Names involved

Alan Mathison Turing

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