This paper has a twofold aim. I wish to illustrate a new perspective of logic that Alan Turing discussed in public and private communications after the results he had obtained in the 1930s. In particular, I shall underline his controversial relationship with the strictly Hilbertian approach to mathematical logic. I shall also show an often forgotten vision of machine intelligence proposed by Turing himself in a Report on Intelligent Machinery written in 1948, where he was more explicit than usual about his experiments concerning machine intelligence, and described a stimulating idea about unorganized machines and their potential intelligent behaviours
Numerico, T. (2010). The New Machine: from Logic to Organization. Turing, von Neumann and a Self-organized Device for Future Applications. RUTHERFORD JOURNAL, Vol. 3(A Special Issue on the History of Computing - Introduction Jack Copeland, Carl Posy, and Oron Shagrir).
The New Machine: from Logic to Organization. Turing, von Neumann and a Self-organized Device for Future Applications
NUMERICO, Teresa
2010-01-01
Abstract
This paper has a twofold aim. I wish to illustrate a new perspective of logic that Alan Turing discussed in public and private communications after the results he had obtained in the 1930s. In particular, I shall underline his controversial relationship with the strictly Hilbertian approach to mathematical logic. I shall also show an often forgotten vision of machine intelligence proposed by Turing himself in a Report on Intelligent Machinery written in 1948, where he was more explicit than usual about his experiments concerning machine intelligence, and described a stimulating idea about unorganized machines and their potential intelligent behavioursI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
