The History of AI101 · Module I · Lesson 02 of 21
Reading · 25 min

Reading: Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence

The paper every practitioner should have read.

Reading

Alan Turing, 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence,' Mind, Vol. 59 (1950).

The founding document of philosophical AI. Read Section 6, 'Contrary Views on the Main Question,' with particular care — every subsequent objection to machine intelligence appears there in embryo.

Reading

Primary and secondary sources for this lesson.