: a hypothetical computing machine that by using only a limited set of very simple computational steps is able to perform any task for which an efficiently computable algorithm is known
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The field dates back to 1936, when Alan Turing first imagined a fanciful device, now called a Turing machine, that could perform any computation by reading and writing symbols on an infinite tape.
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
The hardware implementation of a Turing machine can be organized around a rule book and a notepad.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
Another notable and increasingly useful variant is the probabilistic Turing machine.
—Sheon Han, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
The modern notion of an algorithm, known as a Turing machine, was formulated in 1936 by British mathematician Alan Turing.
—Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
The Turing machine is the template all computers today are based on.
—Jie Wang, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2023
The Turing machine was a prophetic vision of modern computers.
—WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
Human consciousness is too abstract and asymmetrical for any Turing machine to be used to model it for AGI creation.
—Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
Trettenbrein argues, following a book by Gallistel & King that given that memory is so fundamental to a Turing machine, memory ought to be a function of individual neurons, not of the connections between them.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2016
Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
The hardware implementation of a Turing machine can be organized around a rule book and a notepad.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
Another notable and increasingly useful variant is the probabilistic Turing machine.
—Sheon Han, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
The modern notion of an algorithm, known as a Turing machine, was formulated in 1936 by British mathematician Alan Turing.
—Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
The Turing machine is the template all computers today are based on.
—Jie Wang, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2023
The Turing machine was a prophetic vision of modern computers.
—WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
Human consciousness is too abstract and asymmetrical for any Turing machine to be used to model it for AGI creation.
—Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
Trettenbrein argues, following a book by Gallistel & King that given that memory is so fundamental to a Turing machine, memory ought to be a function of individual neurons, not of the connections between them.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2016
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