#alanturing

[tekginger]

AI-DA's "A.I. God Painting Sells for $1 Million at Auction"

NEW YORK (USA) – TekGinger.com – A humanoid robot named AI-DA has made history by selling an artwork for a staggering $1 million. The artwork, a 7.5-foot portrait of the renowned English mathematician Alan Turing, titled “A.I. God,” In a event at Sotheby’s Digital Art Sale in New York. What is AI-DA? It is created by a group of artists, engineers, and scientists and is a humanoid robot with…

AI-DA's "A.I. God Painting Sells for $1 Million at Auction"

[science-education-technology]

What is artificial intelligence, and how did artificial intelligence evolve? From Perceptron to Evolutionary Intelligence. A story of 100 years of development in AI.

[davidfieldsculptor]

4 sculptors models of Alan Turing. Here's a Friday flashback to the late 1990s when I lived in London England and was fortunate to work for Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, the Queens Sculptor for Scotland. Alan Turing was an instrumental codebreaker for the Allies in WW2 and is heralded as the Father of modern computing. These small models were made by me from plaster in Paolozzis Chelsea studio for his Turing project. #alanturing #theturingtest #eduardopaolozzi #paolozzi #sculpture #sculptor #freelancer #london #studio #plaster #wip #maquette #britishsculptors #sculptorsofinstagram #handmade https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6FWetDTw1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[enimagia]

The Imitation Game

I’ve never really used my Tumblr to create “blog” posts, in which I really talk about something like a movie or book, but today I’ve watched the Imitation Game and I really need to get some thoughts off my chest.

If you haven’t watched the movie, please do it. Or if you haven’t heard about Alan Turing. Before the movie, I haven’t heard about him. Like anything. I didn’t know a thing about this amazing story - amazing as “inspiring, impressive, touching”. It wasn’t amazing as in the actual meaning, because I fucking bawled my eyes out in the end.

*Spoiler alert*:

I think the ending was really good. I mean - it was very good writing. Because what happened to homosexuals back in the days is horrible. So horrible. It’s not even that far away from 2020 - I mean, of course, 70 years is kind of a lot, but not compared to medieval times, the renaissance, the dinosaur times - what I’m trying to say is that it might spread even more awareness of how bad the situation was only 70 yrs ago. And you know, Alan’s life ended just like that. Without a goodbye. Without a happy ending. So why would you give the movie a happy ending, only so the fans are pleased? It would be wrong. This is the depiction of reality. Without any glimpse of a happy ending. We don’t even get a short sequence, like in “Me before you”, where there’s a sort of positive letter - no. And it’s how it should be. A cold ending. A sad ending. It hurts a lot when I think about it, about the way Alan was shaking when Joan visited him, about how broken he was inside. And for what? His sexual orientation? Dear God. That’s so wrong, so unfair, I can’t put into words how much the imagination of such circumstances hurt, how it shouldn’t have been that way. And I believe that - even though it’s gotten a lot better - there’s uncountable cases like that one nowadays. In the country we live in there might be no law against homosexuality, but hate and discrimination is everywhere. Please don’t discriminate. That’s all I can say, because I don’t have the ability to travel into people’s ability and destroy their prejudices.

*Spoiler alert end*

And, last but not least: I am so positively overwhelmed by Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in the movie. I’ve watched him in “Sherlock”, “Patrick Melrose” and “Dr. Strange”, and I can just say that by every performance I’m getting more fond of him. So talented. Especially because each of those characters is so unique, and has a very extraordinary way of moving their body, of twitching their eyebrow and just EVERYthing.

This movie wasn’t “entertaining” for me, it was a life lesson. A history lesson. A psychology and philosophy lesson, kind of.

Please seriously watch this movie. It’s powerful.

Yours, -Lane

[333-fml-666]

LGBTQIA+ HISTORY // DAY 07: . Alan Turing was born in in London in 1912 while his father was on leave from the Indian Civil Service. As a student in boarding school, a classmate of Turing's, Christopher Morcom, died of bovine tuberculosis. Morcom is thought to have been Turing's first love, and the death may have led Turing to atheism. It also caused him to double down on his studies, where through his childhood and teen years he showed remarkable talent in science and mathematics. . In 1936, he created the theoretical Turing Machine, which stands as the first-known instance of a computer program. Turing was deeply interested in artificial intelligence as well, and proposed what is now called the Turing Test, which measures the ability of a computer to successfully trick a human into believing that the computer is a person. . During World War II, Alan Turing worked at Britain's codebreaking center and broke several German ciphers. He also broke the codes created by the Enigma, a German cipher machine. In the years following the war, Turing helped design the Automatic Computing Machine, which is the earliest detailed plan of a stored-program computer, his involvement in which cemented his future legacy as among the most influential individuals in modern technology. . In 1952, Turing admitted to having sex with another man, which was illegal in England at the time. He was given the choice between a jail sentence or chemical castration as punishment. He complied with the latter option, but the drugs caused him to become impotent and grow breasts, and eventually led to his apparent suicide by cyanide poisoning two years later. . In 2013, Alan Turing was finally posthumously granted a pardon by the British House of Lords, and he is rightly best remembered as the father of modern computing for his myriad contributions to the field. . #queerhistory #gayhistory #lgbtqhistory #queerpride #transpride #pride #pridemonth #pride2020 #alanturing #lgbt #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #queer #lesbian #gay #bisexual #intersex #asexual #pansexual #nonbinary https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKPJtih2pi/?igshid=1nhrh23qly3sn

[universo-genial]

Gênio, totalmente injustiçado. #alanturing ❤️🧠 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🚀Marquem seus amigos, e sigam o @universo.genial ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 📹Inscrevam-se no canal do Universo Genial no Youtube, Link na Bio! ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #universogenial #ciencia #astronomia #fisica #quimica #biologia #personalidades #curiosidades #universo #genial #correnteastronomica #cosmos #astrofisica #astronauta #divulgação #cosmologia #vocesabia #livro #ebook #facebook #instagram #youtube #science #astronomy #astrophysics #sorteios #live #sigame #100k ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Créditos: 🌌Imagem:. @universo.genial 📰Texto:. @universo.genial ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ https://www.instagram.com/p/CAr8kTaDKuA/?igshid=1ee5ctt2n9e4b

[maxximatics]

Heroes never dies @juteux_et_cocasse (on insta) ask for alan turing, here it is ! This man is a legend and we should not forget him. He helped a lot during the war and he died because of his homosexuality. I think that’s unfair and we should all be grateful for what he did :)

[benedictcumberbatch-br]

"As vezes, aquela pessoa que ninguém espera, é a mesma pessoa que faz coisas que ninguém consegue imaginar" . . . #BenedictCumberbatch #AlanTuring #TheImitationGame #Pride #PrideMonth https://www.instagram.com/bencumberbatchbr/p/BzFBzsNlOg9/?igshid=ya6vyttnkykb