News about Alan Turing

The monarch was pictured waving to well-wishers as he left the royal residence in his state Bentley limousine, although it is not known where he was going. The King is currently being treated for cancer after being diagnosed with a large prostate earlier this year.

Killer robots have long been a scary staple of science-fiction films, from Terminator to The Matrix. But, while they might be scare-worthy in the cinema, should we really be afraid of a big bad AI? Experts believe there are five ways AI could bring about the demise of humanity, from supercharged plagues to full-blown nuclear annihilation. "All potential risks from AI are currently underestimated," Ben Eisenpress, Director of Operations at the Future of Life Institute, told MailOnline, "all catastrophic risks from AI are now underestimated." So, if you're still worried that the AI-apocalypse is nothing more than a dated movie trope, read on to see how worried you should really be.

Britain seemed to be on the brink of a computing revolution in 1968. It's been 56 years old, but the British firm behind the Post Office scandal, which is now Fujitsu, is a contender to become the world's top compute powerhouse. ICL, the British company that was later swallowed by the Japanese giant, was then a major potential rival to IBM of the United States, which was back then a major threat to IBM. Rather, it became a textbook case of failed industrial policies. The story of ICL and how it was swallowed by Fujitsu is a prime example of the low value placed by successive British governments on UK science.

Alan Turing's 'Delilah Project' of the early 1940s has been sold for £381,400. The papers reveal either his attempts to build a portable encryption device or a scramble during the war effort. The device may have been able to decrypt British audio messages, making them unintelligible to anyone without a working decryption scheme. Turing's stellar career came to an end in 1954 when he died of cyanide poisoning after the British government had chastised homosexuals for homosexual offences.

eXCLUSIVE: Locals have described the government's top-secret intelligence, intelligence, and cyber agency in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, as baffling. Bosses at the Benhall site of the town's Benhall neighborhood have applied for permission to fly any kind of flags, not just those from two countries. They are often the Union Flag and those of another UK-friendly region, such as Ukraine. Both are currently on board. GCHQ's decision about flying flags outside the main entrance is explained in a letter included in the planning process.

Mary Ratcliffe (pictured) served at a shady code breaking base in Middlesex in the 1970s, helping to decipher coded messages intercepted from the Nazis. She decoded messages that were encrypted by German Enigma machines using Bombe machines developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park. Many historians have credited Turing's service with shortening the war and saying that his machines saved millions of people.

Jonny May has praised Steve Borthwick as rugby's recreation of the Enigma code cracking during the Second World War. England was on the verge of winning the World Cup final on Saturday, thanks to Borthwick's emergency revival effort. And May said: 'His approach to the game is a little bit like Alan Turing.' If anyone is going to crack the code to rugby, it will be Steve, and he'll be doing well. He's getting closer each week.' He has taken an analytical, evidence-based, scientific, Spock-like approach to the game. If anyone is going to crack it, he's obsessive about it.' We're starting to see how brilliant Steve is, in terms of how he's going to get this team going.'

With the introduction of Griselda, an automated military data-intelligence system, Oleksii Teplukhin (left) and Dmytro Shamrai (top right), they were able to bring their passion for videogaming and coding into combat. No Bletchley Park, and Griselda herself is a very different creature from Colossus. However, there is an undeniable historical, engineering, and motivational link between Turing's pioneers and the occupants of the rather scruffy top-floor suite that Griselda calls home. As one would expect of a place where IT guys hang out, the open-plan apartment, with kitchen diner, is devoid of decoration and a little untidy. The only clues as to what's going on here are open laptops, a whiteboard in Ukrainian, and the mantelpiece of the fireplace on which are shown a deactivated rocket-propelled grenade warhead, a launcher case, a gas mask, and a bayonet.

Bletchley Park, which is near Milton Keynes, is "one of Britain's most exciting tourist attractions," Robert Hardman says, and his three school-age children agree. Robert reveals that visitors learn how some of the country's best minds cracked the war cracking ostensibly impregnable enemy codes.

Some of the animal kingdom's most popular animals, from leopards to zebras, have incredible stripes and spots. But what if these completely vanished altogether? A spotless baby giraffe was born at a zoo in Tennessee last month, making it the only known giraffe without the use of its iconic designs. As it turns out, there are some rare instances of this happening in nature, whether it be tigers without stripes or entirely white pandas. So, take a look at the following links as MailOnline lifts the lid on why so many of these fascinating animals exist.

Julia Turing (left with pictures of Turing), who changed her surname from Schwinghamer to match the genius's, took 17 of her possessions when she visited Sherborne School (bottom) in Dorset in 1984. They included his miniature OBE medal (inset top), school announcements, a letter from King George VI, his doctorate from Princeton, and photographs. The belongings were then discovered in America after Schwinghamer promised to lend the items to the University of Colorado in 2018 and proclaimed to be the codebreaker's daughter. The items were returned to Sherborne on Tuesday by an FBI raid on her home and civil case that was ruled out of court, according to a ceremony that included US officials and the school's headmaster, Dominic Luckett. Turing attended the school from 1926 to 1937, and went on to play a pivotal role in cracking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park, a feat that helped turn the tide of the Second World War.

Poundon House, a Grade-III listed building in Buckinghamshire, was requisitioned by the government in 1940 and became a hub for the top-secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Winston Churchill's order to'set Europe ablaze' by assisting resistance movements in occupied Europe and conducting sabotage missions. SOE Agents were trained at Poundon, which also served as a radio base, and just 20 miles away from Bletchley Park, where the team, including genius Alan Turing, cracked the Nazi code. Poundon House has 12 bedrooms and five bathrooms and is surrounded by more than 11 acres of landscaped gardens and paddocks. Inset: After the war, British troops remained at the house after the war, but officialdom continued to use the house until the late 1970s.

Ever wondered why the Apple logo has a bite taken out of it? MailOnline reveals the real reason behind the now-famous logo, and it's much simpler than you would imagine.

Marion Gibson's witchcraft, which is set to be published on June 22, examines thirteen important trials that reveal the global history of witchcraft and witch-hunts. Helen Duncan, who was sentenced to nine months in jail for witchcraft in 1944, was one of the author's trials, but she was not aware of the ship's sinking of HMS Barham before the news was revealed. Nellie, a mother of six Duncan (left), from Callander, Surrey, was thought to be well-known in spiritualist circles for her apparent ability to communicate with the deceased. According to The Telegraph, she held a séance in Portsmouth in 1941 where she said to have gotten in touch with a sailor who had died aboard HMS Barham during World War II.

Hot Chat 3000 is a quirky online chatroom that uses AI to evaluate your appearance and match you with someone with a similar 'hotness' rank. Hot Chat 3000 is the product of MSCHF, a New York-based art collective that includes Wordle creator Josh Wardle as one of its employees. Since 2019, it has released a string of 'drops' - various projects or items that blend art, electronics, humour, and other things.

A free online game called 'Human or not?' You can talk about anything you like for two minutes, but if they are an AI, the participant may leave the conversation before the time is up, but it is not a robot. At the end, you'll have to decide whether you were speaking to a real person or a self-driving computer system. 'Human or not?' The Turing Test, which was devised by legendary British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, was inspired by the Turing Test.

According to Bank of England Chief Cashier Sarah John, the postponement would give businesses a chance to redesigned their self-service terminals to properly recognize the style. "There's a lot to do to ensure that machines used up and down the country can accept the banknotes,' she told the BBC. They all have to be adapted to the latest style, as well as software upgrades, and that takes months and months. If not, we'll be leaving a banknote out there that people would not be able to use.' The new notes, which include a portrait of the late Queen, will remain legal tender until the new notes become available next year.

The government would also guarantee that researchers have access to the country's best physical and digital infrastructure" for research and development as part of the pledge, in order to attract the best researchers. The PM will state that the UK "will only continue with focus, dynamism, and leadership," as part of his ten-point strategy to foster a "pro-innovation culture" in the public sector. The government will install an exascale supercomputer center as part of the program. An exascale computer can do one quintillion calculations per second. A quintillion is one with 18 zeroes.

A. N. WILSON (inset): The Mother of Parliaments has a lot on its plate at this time. The United Kingdom is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, and there is a chance that the war in Ukraine could devolve into a global war (missiles launched in Donetsk, bottom right). Meanwhile, China, a world leader in slavery and oppression, makes sinister strides in the world and tightens its grip on British industry, nuclear power stations, and (via lucrative sponsorship agreements) universities (hospitals in Beijing top right). However, the Speaker of the House of Commons (centre) has nevertheless agreed that the Parliamentary Committee on Works of Art should continue to spend its time and taxpayer money on 'updating' its art collection.

Sir Clive Sinclair (pictured inset), the designer of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and C5 electric tricycles that revolutionized the British electronics industry, died on September 16 last year at the age of 81. The London-born entrepreneur who invented the first pocket calculator had cancer for more than a decade, but he was still mourning for what he did until the week of his death. This week, he nominated Samuel Pelham Lloyd as the sole executor and trustee of his estate. It was published in April 2016, a year before he divorced his ex-wife and former Miss England Angie Bowness (pictured left and right), who was 36 years old when they met at Soho nightclub Stringfellows, but it wasn't until then that they met. He left behind a gross worth of £2,625,215 and a net worth of £1,749,455, to be split among his five grandchildren, with the money held in a trust fund until they each turn 21. In his will, neither Bowness, who died in 2010 when he was 70, nor Ann Trevor Briscoe, who divorced in 1985, are listed. Angie's uncle, who became Sinclair's step-son, is also absent from the paper. Belinda, Crispin, and Bartholomew were all given nothing by Sinclair's first wife Ann.

If not for a Gewehr 98 (below inset) that appeared in a Edinburgh gun shop, the lives of German soldier Xaver Meyer and Gordon Highlanders Malcolm Hay (left) and Alfred Thom (right) would have been lost in history. A brass plaque (inset top) on the weapon reveals how it was carried by Meyer, a married father of two, when he was killed in Flanders, Belgium, in May 1915. It was discovered in No Man's Land by Thom, who, for no reason, collected Meyer's name and details of where he lay on a piece of paper before transferring them to the error-strewn plaque. It's also a mystery why, according to the plaque, he continued to give the pistol to Hay in 1915, whom he had not encountered with. David Allton, a British historian, saw the weapon for sale and enlisted the help of his German counterpart Robin Schafer to uncover the three men's personal lives. They discovered how Meyer's wife and children never knew what happened to him and how Thom became a compulsive liar after a 1916 plane crash that resulted in life-changing head injuries. Hay, on the other hand, went on to head an intercept and cryptanalysis unit of the War Office, making him one of the British codebreakers' founding fathers.

Last week, Netflix officially launched its £4.99-per-month subscription service in the United Kingdom, with 30 second ads running during film and TV shows. The 'Basic with Adverts' subscription package is £11 less per month than the streamer's most expensive option, as viewers will be exposed to four to five minutes of adverts per hour. And there's another catch: most of Netflix's most popular movies and shows are also banned from using this method. This includes the sitcoms New Girl and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, dramas Suits and House of Cards, and films Paddington and The Imitation Game.

MARK ALMOND: It was at the forefront of intercepting the communications of our adversaries right through the Cold War and does the same thing today. However, Britain's triumph in hacking other world leaders' plotting should not blind us to the talents of our adversaries, or their ruthless targeting of our own organizations and those that run them.

The Bank of England's paper notes will have legal tender status on September 30. Only polymer Bank of England banknotes containing artist JMW Turner and Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing will be accepted after Friday. Over £100 million worth of the notes have been deposit at the 11,500 branches of the Post Office this month. Staff 'are on hand,' Martin Kearsley, the Post Office's banking boss, said to assist those who had left depositing their paper notes until the last minute.' However, the public can still deposit paper notes at their Post Office or exchange them for new notes at the BoE's London office after the deadline has passed.