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Reflections of Alan Turing

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Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Except.... When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything—was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he make of artificial intelligence? What is the significance of Alan Turing's trial, his suicide, the Royal Pardon, the 50 note and the film The Imitation Game? In Reflections of Alan Turing, Dermot strips off the layers to uncover the real story. It's time to discover a fresh legacy of Alan Turing for the twenty-first century.

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"A timely and important book...[an] exploration of the possibilities of AI and beyond." (Sir Adrian Smith, PRS)
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I wanted to hear about Alan's personal life, his trial and the lead up to his death, but OMG this was 10% Alan and 90% about everything else. His nephew Dermot did a lot of research but missed the point that we want to learn about his uncle Alan - not mathematical equations, algorithms and robots etc. Chapter 7 on Robots can be totally skipped over because it's all about his and the public's opinion on robots. Disappointing, boring as hell and 5 hours of my life I will never get back.

Mathematicians are boring but this is next level

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