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The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

"Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept,” wrote Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the Graduate Program in Digital Media, in an article about Alan Turing, the pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence. This year is the centennial of Turing's birth. Source: The Atlantic - July 17, 2012

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