The opening film for the LFF this year, this beautiful period drama, adapted from Andrew Hodges» book The Enigma by debut screenwriter Graham Moore, travels
between Turing's formative days at boarding school and miserable existence in the 1950s, centring on his unique and crucial work defeating the Nazi's Enigma encryption device during WWII.
Tyldum unfussily frames Graham Moore's script
between Turing's arrest in Manchester in 1951, where an interview with Detective Robert Nock (a fine Rory Kinnear) leads us back to the mathematician's arrival at Bletchley Park in 1939.
The Imitation Game, based on Andrew Hodges» biography of Alan Turing, begins with a frosty interview
between Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) a young maths» scholar and Commander Denniston (Charles Dance) who is in charge of the team trying to break Enigma.
Not exact matches
These results are so authentic that one could not tell the difference
between what the Box says and what a native speaker would say; that is, the Box can pass the
Turing test.
Since the goal of this paper is to describe a mechanistic model of explanation, the connection
between these logical notions and
Turing machines will allow us to establish the relationship
between the explanatory model and the image of the machine.
Second, major recent developments in mathematics, logic, and computer science have shown an exact relationship
between certain logical notions and
Turing machines.
As Jennifer Ouellette reported in Quanta in 2013,
Turing «proposed that patterns such as spots form as a result of the interactions
between two chemicals that spread throughout a system much like gas atoms in a box do, with one crucial difference.
As the subject of a
Turing test
between her creator, Nathan Bateman (Isaac) and his employee Caleb Smith (Gleeson), Ava is not only alluringly beautiful, but sympathetic, misunderstood, and for all intents and purposes, human.
His brilliant but overbearing host has chosen Caleb to be the human component in the
Turing test, designed to determine whether the robot Ava (Alicia Vikander) is truly sentient — but as the test progresses, Caleb begins to wonder if he himself isn't part of a larger game
between creator and creation.
He plays
Turing as a sort of combination
between quiz team uber - geek Patrick (in the underrated Starter For Ten) and the BBC's Sherlock.
And that's what the
Turing Test really is about, it's saying that to pass the
Turing Test all you want to do is to get a robot to behave like a real human, as long as an observer can not distinguish
between a robot and a human face on that behaviour then it's said to be artificially intelligent.
Almost every room within The
Turing Test features a snippet of conversation
between T.O.M. and Ava that gets played as soon as you walk through the door.
Wanchain not only serves as a link
between blockchains; the platform will also function as its own internal blockchain with smart contract functionality,
Turing completeness and privacy protection for all network transactions.