Alan Turing: The Genius Who Broke Enigma and Asked if Machines Could Think
In 1950, Alan Turing opened an academic paper with a question that still keeps engineers awake at night: ‘Can machines think?’. From his eccentricities at Bletchley Park chaining his teacup to the radiator to cracking Enigma and inventing the universal computer, this article examines Turing’s legacy through the lens of modern AI: autonomous agents, cybersecurity episodes like the Hugging Face agent exploits, and the approaching horizon of AGI.