Christopher Strachey of the National Research Development Corporation demonstrates the memory drum of the Ferranti Mark 1, (also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer), which has 2,000 leads and functions in a similar way to the human brain, Moston, Manchester, February 1955.
Science & Technology

The Love Letter Generator That Foretold ChatGPT

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
AI generates images, text and videos, cute robot reaching out computer screen, holding file icons, artificial intelligence creates visual content provides it to user, vector illustration isolated
Reading Lists

Artificial Intelligence: An AI-Generated Reading List

ChatGPT generated this annotated bibliography for us. Don't worry, we'll ask (and pay) a human to write one too.
Enigma machine
Science & Technology

Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human?

Google is feeding its natural language AI thousands of romance novels in an effort to humanize its “conversational tone.” Will this give it "humanness?"
Still from the film "Ex-Machina" depicting Ava examining potential faces
Lingua Obscura

Ex Machinations in the Turing Test

Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Test.
Slate statute of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park.
Politics & History

Remembering and Representing Alan Turing

A 1955 obituary of Turing from the Royal Society is fascinating for what it leaves out of the first draft of history.