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Turing’s Vision and Deep Learning

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The success of the AlphaGo computer program in playing world class Go is examined in connection with what Turing had envisioned more than 70 years ago. A critical discussion is given of Searle’s comments on intelligent computer programs and of what Copeland had to say about this.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Turing had introduced the term instruction table for what came to be called a computer program. As I write, one usually speaks of an app.

  2. 2.

    I was embarrassed to find that I had made the same error in my book [6, 7]. Fortunately I’ve been able to correct it for the third edition, in press as I write.

  3. 3.

    Jack Copeland, in a careful detailed introduction to this essay, pointed out that its previous publication, [16] pp. 107–132, contained serious errors. I should also mention that in [1], the article I have criticized for its embrace of hypercomputation, information about Turing’s early comments on neural nets was brought to public attention.

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    Russell G. Miller

  3. Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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Davis, M. (2018). Turing’s Vision and Deep Learning. In: Manea, F., Miller, R., Nowotka, D. (eds) Sailing Routes in the World of Computation. CiE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10936. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94418-0_15

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