GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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TECHNOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes, created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence?
A
Alan Turing
B
Jeff Bezos
C
George Boole
D
Charles Babbage
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government’s Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Detailed explanation-3: -British mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack Nazi Germany’s ‘Enigma’ code and laid the groundwork for modern computing, was pardoned on Tuesday, six decades after his conviction for homosexuality is said to have driven him to suicide.

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