AI Symposium St. Veit

Smart machines: from Turing’s “bomb” to ChatGPT

Alan Turing cracked the Nazi code with his "bomb" (left). Today, we are closer to "thinking" machines than ever before.(Bild: Public Domain/Adobe.com)

Ever since electronic brains - i.e. computers - have existed, the myth of machines that can think for themselves has been around. In the movie "The Imitation Game", computer pioneer Alan Turing even gives his machine a name. Today, the boundaries between fantasy and reality are becoming blurred ...

The father of modern computer science - the Briton Alan Turing earned this title not only with his work during the Second World War. In 1936, he laid the foundations for the modern computers we know today with his mathematical work on a "universal machine". He then used the principle of this "Turing Machine" in the Second World War.