The work of Alan Turing continues to be of huge significance to all of our lives over 100 years since his birth. Any new works on Turing are an exciting addition to the collections of the library. “The Turing Guide” stands out with its extensive coverage of Turing’s life and works, written in a highly […]
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The most human human
(Photo credit: The most human human written by Brian Christian, published by Penguin) (Image shows the title of the book and a cartoon picture of a robot) Telling the difference between humans and computers used to be easy. But artificial intelligence is now so advanced that it is capable of behaving, and even thinking, in […]
Alan Turing’s electronic brain
(Photo credit: By permission of Oxford University Press) (Image above shows a cross-sectional representation of a head but instead of a brain, there is the image of a computer. The title of the book ‘Alan Turing’s electronic brain’ and the author’s name, B. Jack Copeland against a purple and black background) Best known as the […]