so alan turing comes up with what he calls the imitation game because that's the name of the movie. we now call it the turing test but it's simply a way to decide whether or not a machine is -- you take a machine and put it a different room with a the human. you send the questions and after a while you can't tell the difference between the answers coming back from one side and the answer coming back from the other side you can't tell which is the machine and which is the human. he says there's no reason to believe that a machine isn't thinking. in the philosophy department you can argue about consciousness and whether or not that's a good test but it has become the defining test of machine machine learning in machine learning and artificial intelligence of the digital age and it sets up two strands of the digital revolution. people like ada lovelace who believe the point was to connect humans and technology humanity and science the imagination and creativity of us humans connecting to the processing machines would augment each other and the partnership symbiosis she called it would b

benedict cumberbatch starring in the imitation game" which tells the story of computer scientist alan turing a key figuring in cracking germany's enigma code which helped the allies win the second world war. a conversation with benedict cumberbatch coming up right now.á ♪ and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.t#$cx ♪ "the imitation game" is one of the year's best films. benedict cumberbatch. i love that name, benedict cumberbatch stars in that film as alan turing a key figure in cracking germany's enigma code which helped the allies win the second world war. he's no stranger to viewers of pbs viewers of ósmasterpiece" for his working in "sherlock" right now. before we start our conversation, let's look at a scene from "the imitation game." >> of course that's what you're working on. but you also haven't got anywhere with it. if you had you wouldn't be hiring crypting to fers out of university. you need me. i like solving problems commander and enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. >> enigma isn't difficult. it's impossible. the americans the r

let's turn to alan turing and code breaking. you do something interesting, explore the magical year of 1947 when everything seems to be converging. >> one of the things about history of technology is that it is not totally revolutionary. we build upon things but every now and then it is punctuated. as a combination of analytic science like claude shannon and people understanding how algebra which allows you to do logical sequence is based simply on on off switch is next to the fact that they have vacuum tubes and can make circuits with on-off switches. so in other places they make these advances using algebra. algebra. and you have turing who has many things he does. let's start with ada lovelace. as i told you, you, a machine we will be able to do everything. but there is one thing and machine we will never be able to do. that is drink. so that is her objection. one hundred years later he is reading the notes and calling the objections. he comes up with a test. how do we know machines will never think? you send questions and. y

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it makes our devices personal not doing the alan turing create artificial intelligence. the people the people at texas instruments figured out that you have these transistors, but you need a market that is a true mass-market. radios were then a shared appliance, just like many things. something that is shared that suddenly someone makes personal. what they do they finally make the regency transistor radio around 1957 and it allows you to control the dial instead of your parents allows parents, allows you to take it to the beach or the backyard. that same month elvis presley puts out his first album. i am convinced there is a symbiosis that time. rock music had a hard time taking off if it was only that radio in the living room. by the way transistor radios became a must-have thing. i remember in the early 60s getting my transistor radio. and you could listen to any music you wanted, especially the ones your parents to not like. you have that symbiosis just like the automobile industry and the oil industry but more importantly, if you want to look at the trajectory of dig

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. >> reporter: he plays alan turing the man who broke the code for world war 278 but was persecuted forow do i not know about this guy? how important is it for you to be telling his story? >> hugely to bring him to other people through the film is a huge honor personally and something i feel very strongly about. this man needs recognition. >> reporter: recognition is not something cumber bach is currently lacking. his sudden appeal has him playing a part he never imagined. a sex symbol. >> have you heard the names fans are giving themselves? >> i haven't. >> the cumberbitches. they talk about the high cheekboned blue-eyed benedict cumberbatch. >> it's all very nice. >> do you relish your role as a sex sill bollymbol? >> oh, yes. it's great being recognized as a sex bomb. it makes me giggle. it's a projection of how i come across than what i wake up in the morning because i've had that [ expletive ] for the last ten years. >> the obsession went into overdrive in 2010 when cumberbatch became the bbc's sherlock holmes. >> do your research. >> i am -- >> he played a creepy con in the latest

joan clark, the women per trade with alan turing is a real character. she is a character as real as he is. the movie "jobs are cut out the mac team, if you look at the photographs of who made it, the section of the movie from hollywood, no women were even the cast for the mac scene. when you look at the movie "you." -- "apollo" -- the women who was there as not portrayed in the movie. >> >> thank you everybody, well done. well done. >> >> thank you everyone, and thank you for being prompt and not letting the snow get in your way. we're going to keep rolling. we want to keep today going forward. our next person is actually a keynote. she is in her 10th year. it is different to them but you have in your agendas. we are going to do this as an interview with peter cook from bloomberg television. this will be another strategic dialogue like you just witnessed. one thing this congress were -- this congresswoman has done is become the head of the republican caucus. follow the -- for all of you who busy using social media, there were many not interested. now, o

so joan clark, who is the character that's portrayed with alan turing is not an anomaly. she's true in history as he is, but there were a lot of technical women. the movie "jobs." i have friends who were in the mac team. if you look at the rolling stone's photograph seven men and five women appear in those photos. but in the section of the movie from hold, accidentally, no women were cast for the scene. none of those women any of the elite americans who did that work. when you look at the movie apolo, most people don't know kathryn johnson. she's the african american woman who calculated the trajectories for alan shepherd, john glenn and the apolo mission, and she lives in maryland. >> wow. let's celebrate these folks. >> yeah, we need them to appear so that all young men and women can see them. >> megan we got to right those wrongs! thank you, everybody. well done, well done. [ applause ] >> thank you all and thank you, everyone, for being prompt and on time and not letting the slight snow that we have get in your way. we are going to keep rolling because congresswoman m

alan turing is a name who should be as well known as einstein as darwin and newton and he's not -- quite government and it felt so important to tell this story. >> so thrilling, i mean as the movie, it's like a spy thriller a war story. it's also a beautiful love story. >> how great to have those two elements together. how do you as, you know, in term also of the screenplay. obviously you have certain mechanisms for hollywood movies. you have all of this nuance in this particular character. >> i think the goal for us was to be true to his experience of the world. when morton says we showed a process of cracking the german code during the war as a spy thriller, that's because to alan it felt like a spy thriller. here's this 27-year-old plucked out of cambridge, never been outside the university environment in his life and now he's working alongside the highest levels cracking this code. it's a real life spy story. >> all right so i'm looking at the nominations. best motion picture drama. best actor in a motion picture drama. best supporting actress. best original score. this ain't bad. >>