The Imitation Game: A perspective
"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." - Alan Turing Alan Turing Source: https://alchetron.com/Alan-Turing-1374575-W The movie celebrates the enduring spirit of Man to do tremendous good in spite of adversity that jeopardizes your entire existence. The movie depicts in glorious detail the life of a lesser known man, Alan Turing, even in this age of computers and the prospective era of artificial intelligence systems and humanoids. If Adam was the first man to ever come into being, then 'Christopher' was the first thinking machine. Alan Turing's path-breaking invention marks what was to be the beginning of Mankind's tryst with digital thinking machines that not only perform tasks that solve problems at lightening speeds, but are extensions of ourselves. The movie admirably juxtaposes the absurdity of his attachment with his machine as opposed to another human being (his ex-fiance, Joan Clark...