Turing developed \u201cThe Bombe\u201d\u2014the machine that cracked the German navy\u2019s Enigma machine encryption, helping the Allies win the war. (Turing\u2019s other claim to fame, of course, is the Turing Test, which poses the question: can a computer fool a person into thinking it\u2019s human?) Clarke\u2019s interactions with Turing is what helped the artificially intelligent HAL start to take shape in the author\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n
His futuristic vision of the future, which was very much rooted in what scientists were thinking about artificial intelligence, is something we\u2019re still grappling with today. What happens when the programs we build to help us turn on us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Turing developed \u201cThe Bombe\u201d\u2014the machine that cracked the German navy\u2019s Enigma machine encryption, helping the Allies win the war. (Turing\u2019s other claim to fame, of course, is the Turing Test, which poses the question: can a computer fool a person into thinking it\u2019s human?) Clarke\u2019s interactions with Turing is what helped the artificially intelligent HAL … <\/p>\n