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Andrew Hodges is the author of 'Alan Turing: The Enigma' - his definitive biography (and the official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley). Andrew has spent his life deeply researching Turing's extraordinary life - from inventing the computer and breaking Nazi codes at Bletchley Park, to his tragic persecution and death at 41. In this conversation, we explore the mind of the man who changed computing forever.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - Turing's 3 Biggest Achievements
2:41 - How He Imagined Computers Before Existence
6:50 - Actually Building The Computer
10:10 - How The Death of Christopher Morcom Shaped Him
15:05 - Secretly Being Gay & University
19:08 - The Personality Everyone Completely Misunderstood
22:50 - The Truth Behind His Suicide
27:11 - Can Machines Think? The Turing Test
34:03 - What Turing Would Think Of ChatGPT
36:00 - He Was An Olympic-Level Runner
38:14 - The Imitation Game Film
43:13 - Why Your Deep Interest in Turing?
43:22 - Why Spend Your Life Researching Turing?
46:51 - Andrew Working With Roger Penrose On Twistor Theory
48:26 - Turing vs Twistor Theory - Which Matters More?
49:56 - What Is A Good Life?
Guest - Andrew Hodges
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