Alan Turing
A British computer scientist and mathematician who proposed the Turing test and the Turing machine model, and is regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Alan Turing proposed in 1950 that if a machine cannot be distinguished in textual communication with a human, then asking whether it truly thinks has no practical meaning.
The naming of CAPTCHA pays homage to the Turing Test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, but in the opposite direction: the Turing Test has humans judge whether a machine possesses human intelligence, whereas CAPTCHA has a machine judge whether a user is human.
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The naming of CAPTCHA pays homage to the Turing Test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, but in the opposite direction: the Turing Test has humans judge whether a machine possesses human intelligence, whereas CAPTCHA has a machine judge whether a user is human.
60%UnverifiedAlan Turing proposed in 1950 that if a machine cannot be distinguished in textual communication with a human, then asking whether it truly thinks has no practical meaning.
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