Turing may be the most significant figure in AI, even 60 years later. Leaves you wondering where the world would be if he didn't die at 41
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Replying to @fchollet
Don't know about the world, but Turing would have certainly worked on Neural Networks after '53 http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/reference%20articles/connectionism/Turing%27s%20neural%20networks.html …
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Max Neumann summarized Turing's body of work as trying to understand "the extent and the limitations of mechanistic explanations of nature".
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Replying to @_onionesque @fchollet
I think that really sets him apart. Valiant describes him as a natural scientist first, only using the tools of CS for Natural science.
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His work on biological morphogenesis is arguably his best. He seems to have dug deep into big ideas, like framing the universe as a program
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Ultimately you cannot study separately the computational nature of the mind and the computational nature of the universe
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