Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game" - Official Teaser Trailer

The Imitation Game Stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing and should be out in the U.S. Nov. 1st. 

It looks very good. I'm a fan of Cumberbatch and love these types of war movies. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Alan Turing was a computer scientist and mathematician He is considered the father of artificial intelligence and he's the person who cracked the German Enigma code. (For a great movie about how we stole an Enigma machine check out U-571.)

The Imitation Game was Turing's name for what we now call a Turing Test, which is:

...a test to determine whether a computer can think... distinguishing “original” thought from sufficiently sophisticated “parroting.”
...if a computer acts, reacts, and interacts like a sentient being, then call it sentient. To avoid prejudicial rejection of evidence of machine intelligence, Turing suggested the “imitation game,” now known as the Turing test: a remote human interrogator, within a fixed time frame, must distinguish between a computer and a human subject based on their replies to various questions posed by the interrogator. By means of a series of such tests, a computer’s success at “thinking” can be measured by its probability of being misidentified as the human subject.
www.britannica.com

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