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Senior Lecture Blaine Price discusses the Turing Test and artificial intelligence with author Simon Lavington

#philosophical #software #TheProf #UniversalComputer #ThoughExperiment

Senior Lecturer Blaine Price interviews Professor Darrel Ince Lavington on Alan Turings legacy from the perspective of a computer scientist.

Professor Timothy Chappell explains how the World War 2 brought an opportunity perfectly suited to Turing's abilities.

Professor Timothy Chappell touches upon key moments in Alan Turing's life.

In October 1868 Charles Dickens farewell tour began but had to be cut short on account of his failing health.

Free learning from The Open University: History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4387

#Audience #CharlesDickens #Health #FarewellTour

We look at how in 1867 Charles Dickens embarked on an exhausting 19 week tour of America as one of the world's first 'celebrity authors'.

Free learning from The Open University: History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4387

How Dickens began his professional career reading for his own profit initiating a new and brilliant phase in his career.

Free learning from The Open University: History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4387