You may have also heard that this was a complete sham, and the academic equivalent of urinating directly on Turing’s grave. This prompted the University of Reading, which had organized the competition, to announce the acheivment of “an historic milestone in artificial intelligence.” In a contest held this past weekend, a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy fooled a third of its human judges into thinking it was a human.
Perhaps that's why I still consider the former better than the latter here, but overall, whenever the silver screen gives us a chance to peek into great minds like these, I'm more than happy to sit back and be amazed.By now, you may have heard that the Turing Test, that hallowed old test of machine intelligence proposed by pioneering mathematician Alan Turing in 1950, has been passed. While that ended up being more of a love story and look into mental illness, The Imitation Game sticks to more of an espionage theme. Immediately, my mind went to comparing this movie to A Beautiful Mind. The importance of the film is doubled with the inclusions of Mark Strong and Charles Dance in brief, but crucial scenes they act the hell out of over the two hours. Keira Knightley and him shine together on screen with each other's nuances worn on their sleeves. That aside, Cumberbatch and company put in excellent performances from beginning to end. Sure we get the machine cost 100,000 pounds and that it works on electricity from being unplugged or switched off and on countless times, but at least give the audience the benefit of the doubt to try and understand how it works with some more depth. I get that Turing was a tinkerer, but throughout the film, instead of feeling connected with a character's mind to see at least try and understand what's going on, the movie instead keeps the viewer at arms length, much like the rest of his team until the machine magically gets completed at the end of the second act. Even with some stellar acting from our lead Benedict Cumberbatch and quite the proper supporting cast, why do I feel like the climax never quite reached the top of the crest before coming back down the other side? What he accomplished during WWII and beyond just before his death will forever be remembered, and The Imitation Game gives us a moving tribute to a brief period of his life that mattered most. Alan Turing turned out to be one of our greatest minds in history.
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