A celebration of the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's seminal paper "On Computable Numbers", featuring a debate on the limits of intelligent machines and a lecture on Turing's contributions.
4:30 - 5:30pm Public Debate David Gelernter vs. Ray Kurzweil "Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic 'zombies' or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even 'spiritual' machines?"
5:30 - 6:15pm Pizza & Soda
6:15 - 7:15pm Special Public Lecture B. Jack Copeland "Alan Turing, Codebreaker and AI Pioneer"
webcast of the event
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