[luvbb]

I suggest Alan Turning's 1950 Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Many of the ideas first written in this paper are commonly referenced. It's good to have read the primary source. Do machines think? If you know what a theoretical Turning Machine is you'll have all the prerequisite knowledge. If not you can skip over that part. Do they still teach Turning Machines in Highschool?

http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html

[luckyt]

> Alan Turning

> Turning Machine

His name's Turing

[fhood]

Benefit of the doubt. He could just be used to automatically typing turning. I add apostrophes to want (wan't) all the time.

[moomin]

It’s also a pretty common autocorrect. A fair few of us post using our phones and I’m always horrified to see what actually got posted when I look at it 61 minutes later.

[mercer]

Ha, I literally had 'What are Turing machines?' as my Question of the Week. Thanks for the link. Any other good links to help me find the best answer to this question?

[k3lsi3r]

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/intro... is a good resource for understanding Turing Machines. There used to be a way to share a link with non-subscribers but for some reason I can't find it now.

[w4tson]

Not particularly scientific but you could also checkout the 2014 movie Imitation Game: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

For bit of background about Turing’s life and efforts in WW2.

[dharmon]

The original paper can get a bit dense at times. I recommend Petzold's "The Annotated Turing" for a guided tour.

[potbelly83]

The original paper was the 1936 one. This is a different paper.