Antinomy

Category: Philosophy of AI

  • Alan Turing’s Imitation Game

    Turing created one of the most brilliant thought experiments in the history of AI: the Imitation Game. Do people think like machines—or not? Alan Turing, alongside his first critic Ludwig Wittgenstein, initiated debates that still resonate today. In this article, let us focus solely on Turing’s landmark 1950 paper. The paper opens with a simple…

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    Portrait of Alan Turing as a teenager, 1928.

  • Wittgenstein’s Blue and Brown Books: What Can Be Said About Computational Thinking

    “Perhaps one of the most outspoken of the pre-test critics was Turing’s close colleague and friend, Ludwig Wittgenstein.” (1, 433) As some accounts suggest, “fundamentally, he really disliked the idea that people were machines.” (1, 434) Empirical Thinking vs Philosophical Critique The central question here is whether it is possible to say that humans compute…

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    This rare photograph captures Wittgenstein walking alongside Francis Skinner in Cambridge. It reflects their close personal and intellectual relationship during the period when Wittgenstein was teaching the very material that would become the Blue and Brown Books.