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The study of Alan Turing’s life and work shows how the origin of the Turing Test lies in Turing’s formulation of the concept of computability and the question of its limits.
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Hodges, A. (2009). Alan Turing and the Turing Test. In: Epstein, R., Roberts, G., Beber, G. (eds) Parsing the Turing Test. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_2
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