A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

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Alan Turing
British mathematician born in 1912 who formalized computation with the Turing machine and helped crack the Enigma code. Called the father of computer science, he also pioneered artificial intelligence theory.
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