Title: Cultural Interest W01
Course: CS171: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence > Section: Introduction; Agents

- Alan Turing’s classic paper on AI (1950).  Alan Turing is the most famous computer scientist of all time.  The Turing Award is the highest honor in computer science.  The Turing Machine is still our fundamental theoretical model of computation. Turing’s work on the Enigma code in WWII led to programmable computers.
- AAAI/AI Topics: The Turing Test: “Can Machines Think?”
- Wikipedia “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
- John McCarthy, “What Is Artificial Intelligence?”
- AAAI, AI Overview.
- Silicon Valley Kingpins Commit $1 Billion to Create Artificial Intelligence Without Profit Motive
- “Technological singularity” --- Wikipedia.  “The technological singularity hypothesis is that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing or even ending civilization in an event called the singularity.”
- “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era” (c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge.
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“Abstract:     Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented.”
“.... Just so I'm not guilty of a relative-time ambiguity, let me more specific: I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030....”