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Alan Turing

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Mathematician

The Resume

    (June 23, 1912-June 7, 1954)
    Developed the Turing Test to test for artificial intelligence

Why he might be annoying:

    His work wasn't well known during his lifetime and while living, his biggest claim to fame was his uncle's advancements in the sport of fly-fishing.
    In 1942, he proposed to one of his fellow female professors even though he was openly gay.
    He was arrested in March of 1952 because of a homosexual relationship and was forced to undergo estrogen injections to make him asexual.
    He lost his British security clearance in 1952 because he was gay.
    He committed suicide.
    Many consider the Turing Test an insufficient test for artificial intelligence.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He received his Ph.D. from Princeton, working without faculty oversight.
    In 1936, he published an article that would later be influential in the development of the computer.
    He made contributions to just about every area of science and mathematics during his lifetime.
    He saved countless lives when he, along with the help of a Polish logician, broke the Nazi Enigma code in 1939 and gave the Allies a major advantage.
    He was briefly a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein's.
    He develop the original and still standard test for artificial intelligence.
    He was a great athlete and was planning on trying out for the British track team for the 1948 Olympics until an injury prevented this.
    He never apologized for his homosexuality and maintained that there was nothing wrong with consenting sex between two adults of the same sex.
    To keep from upsetting his mother, he tried to make the suicide look like an accident.
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    The Turing Test
    Used to test for artificial intelligence.
    The test works as follows: A panel of questioners sit by a computer and converse with an anonymous subject on another computer in another room.
    The panel carries on a dialogue with ten subjects, nine of whom are human and one that is a candidate for artificial intelligence.
    The panel tests the subjects by getting them to answer questions that reveal their ability to adapt to different situations, showcase their aesthetic tastes, etc.
    At the end, the panel votes on who is human and who the potential AI program is.
    If a program has demonstrated enough ingenuity and advancement to fool the panel and convince them that it is human, then it is labeled as artificial intelligence.
    So far, no program has ever passed this test.

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    In 2013, Out of 29 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 36.84% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 21.43% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 113 Votes: 67.26% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 65 Votes: 35.38% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 34 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 68 Votes: 61.76% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 130 Votes: 46.92% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 218 Votes: 47.71% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 329 Votes: 41.34% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 187 Votes: 44.39% Annoying