In 1936 and under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, 24 year old mathematician, Alan Turing invented a theoretical machine he named, The Turing Machine that would change history in a significant manner. The idea of this machine is that anything that can be written down and converted to symbols has the potential to be carried out by one machine. He also developed The Bombe Machine, which was used to crack The Enigma Machine's encrypted code that was used during the start of WWII between Germany and Poland. This machine was used to translate the encrypted radio instructions used to guide Germans submarines to reach and attack their targets.
Turing was highly intelligent and set high standards for future scientists. He is held responsible for a large contribution toward society and science that were greatly relevant today. The terms "Turing compatible" and "Turing equivalent" are still used today in the world of computers. He always set new challenges for himself and created examples of equations that could not be solved even by his own theoretical machines. It is thought that he did this displayed his value for human thinking and suggested that those issues were the exact ones that needed to be resolved before machines can think like humans.
If Turing's goal was to prove why it is that issues such as the inability to solve given equations created by himself with a machine before creating machines that think like humans need to be resolved, I completely agree. I think that a lot of thought into the positive and negative outcomes of such invention needs to be researched and experimented in depth in order to prevent mass destruction. I think that producing something as intelligent as the human mind, if not more, can bring many negative outcomes and thus should be tested before making it available to society.
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