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At 4:50 in the morning on May 11, 1997, Beijing time, a super computer named “Deep Blue” dropped the last piece on the chessboard C4. The world heard the killing sound of the century-“Checkmate!” This “human-machine war” that attracted worldwide attention has finally come to an end with the victory of the machine.
“Dark Blue” is a smart computer, a masterpiece of artificial intelligence. The news media kept asking questions with provocative headlines: Was the victory of the computer alone or the intelligence of the entire human race? Even the chess king admits to losing, what will humans lose next time? Wisdom is lost, what is left of mankind? As a result, artificial intelligence has once again become the focus of public attention and become a proud subject in the computer science community.
01 Turing
Turing’s life is full of unsolved mysteries. He is like a god sent to the lower realm by heaven. He hurries and hurries away, leaving wisdom and deep thoughts for the world. Thinking for decades or even hundreds of years.
Many documents even suggest that Turing is not only the “father of artificial intelligence”, he is also the “father of computers”. Frankel, an American scholar who had served as von Neumann’s assistant, wrote: “Many people recommend von Neumann as…