at the back was the orange folder which said alan turing. find gave them a shock. it was completely unexpected. we had no knowledge that there was anything like this at the university. we are very surprised and pleased to have received it. some of the letters give us an insight into some of his more forthright opinions. in 1951, he wrote it was a great honour to be able to lecture at a prestigious american university. but two years later, when asked to speak at a seminar in the us, he wrote, i would not like the journey and i detest america. also are letters about a code to teach a computer to play chess. a few years ago it was used for the first time and it worked. a fascinating find. so how are you spending your bank holiday weekend ? are you one of the thousands of people hitching up and heading off for a caravan break? the popularity of caravan and mobile home holidays has increased significantly in 2017 , with some sites in the north east of england reporting the busiest yearfor a decade. megan paterson reports. bobble hat aside, carava

in so doing, they implicitly or explicitly follow the lead of alan turing who separated the issue of intelligence from the issue of consciousness in his famous essay computing machinery and intelligence. he wrote i do not wish to get give the impression that i think there is no mystery about consciousness, but i do not feel these mysteries necessarily need to be solved before we can answer the question with which we are concerned in this paper. the question of this paper, following the behavior and rise of psychology could it be that a machine is thinking in the way that we think. hence the turing test, a simplified version of which confronts a person with an artificial intelligence to see if the person can tell if he is talking to a computer or a fellow human being. if it has artificial intelligence by touring definition. if we cannot clarify consciousness, perhaps we are in firmer ground with ai. ai, from the point of its development could be seen as a kind of fulfillment of a material consciousness. it functions in a more or less deterministic way. it seems to vindicate the idea t

in so doing, they implicitly or ask for simply follow the lead of alan turing has separated the issue of intelligence from the issue of consciousness in his famous essay, computing machinery and intelligence. he wrote, i do not wish to give the impression that i think there is no mystery about conscious as, but i do not think these mysteries necessarily need to be solved before we can answer the question with which we are concerned in this paper. the question of this paper, following the behavioral orientation on the rise in psychology was could there be -- would not could there be a conscious machine or even could there be a thinking machine, but rather in effect could people be convinced that a machine with thinking in the same way that we think. hence the turing test. a simplified version of which confronts a person with an artificial intelligence if the person can tile if he is talking to a computer or to a fellow human being. if he cannot, the computer has artificial intelligence by the definition. if we cannot clarify consciousness then, perhaps we are on firmer ground than a.i.