History

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.

In 1948, a solitary engineer at Bell Labs published a mathematical paper that no one asked for. That document not only invented the concept of the ‘bit’, but laid the absolute mathematical foundation for the internet, modern cybersecurity, and the massive data compression that makes AI possible today.