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The Turing Tests
Reina Gammarino ’24
The machine clicks, jolts, then stops suddenly. The potential to save more lives than the population of England is in this room, right now.
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The fleet of battleships headed for a swarm of German U-boats is called off. The victims of the next planned air strike evacuate the area.
An attack scheduled for July 7th is aborted. Enigma is cracked.
Alan Turing, in return, is arrested, placed in steel handcuffs for his apparent “indecency”: his relationship with a man named Arnold Murray.
Day after day he gulped down pills administered to him by the government of the country he served.
The apple he poisoned lay on the table. He took a bite out of it. It tasted like bitter almonds.
A century later a computer talks politics, the recent plunge in the Dow
It flirts a bit, then giggles a little too much.
How to be human? It’s so hard.
