About Austin: Austin is the CEO and co-founder of Yhat, Inc. He was previously at OnDeck Capital, the largest online small business lender in the United States. Alan Turing posed this question at the outset of his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," a seminal piece of literature in the field of artificial intelligence. Turing wanted to know whether computers would eventually imitate humans' responses so well that people wouldn't be able to tell whether they were interacting with a human or a machine. Decades later, in an era when computers are capable of recognizing and responding to human speech, processing images and even driving cars, the question for data scientists and engineers has become "What else can machines think about?"