The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life.
— Alan Turing Modern

Computer science, codebreaking

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From "Computing machinery and intelligence".

Date / Period

1950

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Strange & Unusual

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https://vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com/grounding-api-redirect/AUZIYQEtsB1mDgT0H…

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Found in 1 providers: gemini

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