Central Square Theater

Alan Turing helped change not only what computers can do, but how we think about thinking itself. What is Turing’s legacy at the point where logic, language, and human judgement meet? What does it mean to call a process “mechanical?” And why does ordinary language and “common sense” remain central to questions about intelligence? As machines seem to think more and more like us, the hardest question may be what kind of thinking was human to begin with.