FILE - An exterior view shows the mansion house at Bletchley Park museum in the town of Bletchley in Buckinghamshire, England, Jan. 15, 2015. The U.K.-hosted AI Safety Summit is bringing politicians, computer scientists and tech executives to a site chosen for its symbolism: Bletchley Park, a name synonymous with codebreaking and the birth of computing.
Deciphered Enigma messages revealed details of the movements of Germany’s U-boat fleets and provided crucial information for the North African desert campaign and the Allied invasion of France. Some historians say cracking the code helped shorten the war by up to two years. “They built, effectively, one of the early generations of computers from basically nothing,” Smith said, exhibiting a “technological optimism” that's a striking feature of wartime Bletchley Park.Smith, a lecturer in history at Coventry University, said a mythology has developed around Bletchley Park, as a playground for Turing and other eccentric scientists, that oversimplifies its true contribution.
“The way to imagine Bletchley Park is a massive civil service bureaucracy,” Smith said. “It’s basically a factory. … Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It’s always going.” After the war, Turing continued to work on computing and developed the “Turing test” to measure when artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from a human — a test some say modern-day AI has already passed.
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