With our new weekly podcast “Fast Facts: KI-Momente”, we aim to briefly highlight 12 milestones in AI research and spark interest in the history of modern AI. The series launched just before Easter on April 2, 2026, and a new episode is released every Thursday. The podcast is in German.
The topic of the first episode is:
Milestone No. 1: The Turing Test (1950)
How do we actually decide whether a computer is intelligent or just very good at pretending to be? As early as 1950, when computers still filled entire rooms, a brilliant mathematician named Alan Turing asked himself this question and developed an experiment that still defines how we debate artificial intelligence today.
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