He also hinted at artificial intelligence when he said, “'What we want is a machine that can learn from experience', adding that the 'possibility of letting the machine alter its own instructions provides the mechanism for this' (qtd.This was an important deviation from analog machines that required changes in the machine itself, via switches and cables, to cause a change in the end result. Turing’s decision could change its function just by changing the instructions it received.Following these instructions, Turing argued, the machine could do any calculation a human could do that did not involve any form of ingenuity, it could follow directions.At any time, the tape of the machine is going through the reader and giving it instructions based on the symbols in the squares.This machine is described as with “infinite tape that is divided into squares, any square of which may hold a non-blank symbol from a finite alphabet” (Weintraub, par.

The machine he thought of is now known as the Turing Machine and helped start program-stored computers.The actions of the scanner would be dictated by a program, changing the program would allow for change in the scanners movements and the machine’s end result.This machine consisted of unlimited memory and a scanner that moves across, reading the memory and writing new data.In 1935, at Cambridge university, Turing conceived the idea of the modern digital computer.He knew the computer would mean unlimited potential in the creation and implementation of artificial intelligence and was determined to be the first to act on this belief.Alan Turing, regarded by some as the father of computer science, was among the first to envision the power of a computer and the importance of software over hardware.

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