Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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Name

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Authors

Alan M. Turing

Year

1950

Field

Computer science / Philosophy

Why it stuck

The Turing Test paper — reads like someone calmly predicting half of modern tech while everyone else is still figuring out vacuum tubes.

My take

I reread this whenever people dramatically ask if AI will take our jobs; Turing was mulling that vibe before my grandparents were born, and he does it in about 25 pages.