In 1950, Alan Turing invented the Turing Test as a way to determine if a computer program could think like a human. He proposed that a set of judges talk to one computer connected to a human and one running an artificial intelligence program. If the judges were fooled by the computer program then it was truly intelligent.

Two years later Turing, the father of binary computing, was arrested and prosecuted for engaging in homosexual activities. In 1954, he committed suicide.

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