The Morning Paper Issue 8 - AI Edition

Welcome to this AI-themed edition of The Morning Paper Quarterly. I've selected five paper write-ups which first appeared on The Morning Paper blog over the last year. To kick things off we're going all the way back to 1950! Alan Turing's paper on "Computing Machinery and intelligence" is a true classic that gave us the Turing test, but also so much more. Here Turing puts forward the idea that instead of directly building a computer with the sophistication of a human adult mind, we should break the problem down into two parts: building a simpler child program, with the capability to learn, and building an education process through which the child program can be taught. Writing almost 70 years ago, Turing expresses the hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.