Alan Turing was a trailblazer in many regards, there are a few technology related terms that he lends his name to, the most pertinent of our time is the Turing Test - specifically the Imitation Game whereby a human uses a computer to engage with two entities at once, one being an actual human and the other being a machine, with no indication which is which. The machine is said to pass the test if you as a human can't tell which is the human and which is the machine.
This is perhaps the most pertinent of our time because of the rise of AI, or to be more precise, the rise of the Large Language Model [LLM] which is a complex algorithm that uses machine learning to process a large dataset consisting of natural language and then mimic that language. The reason this is distinct from AI is because of the lack of reasoning, something which the newer variants of most of these models are now incorporating and developing at pace. The term "AI" in its purest definition has mostly been abandoned, held onto by Computer Scientists with the same pedantry as the distinction between "The Internet" and "The World Wide Web" which are not the same thing but for all intents and purposes now most people use the terms synonymously and any effort to hold onto that distinction seems pointless at this stage - AI has gone the same way, whether it is "technically" AI or not is now irrelevant.
