WW2 triggers fresh thinking (12 mai 1943 – 8 juin 1943)

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World War Two brought together scientists from many disciplines, including the emerging fields of neuroscience and computing.

In Britain, mathematician Alan Turing and neurologist Grey Walter were two of the bright minds who tackled the challenges of intelligent machines. They traded ideas in an influential dining society called the Ratio Club. Walter built some of the first ever robots. Turing went on to invent the so-called Turing Test, which set the bar for an intelligent machine: a computer that could fool someone into thinking they were talking to another person.