ALAN tURING and his defining prediction about computers

 Alan Turing is credited with defining the research project that would come to be known as Artificial Intelligence in his seminal 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” He described the “imitation game,” where a computer attempts to fool a human interlocutor that it is not a computer but another human (Turing 1948, 1950). In 1950, he made the now famous claim that

I believe that in about fifty years’ time…. one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted