The artificial intelligence that changes our lives is seen as innovative, however it took its first steps during the last century. Its invention is attributed to the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954), the founder of computer science. During World War II, Turing helped British intelligence crack the “Enigma”, the German encryption machine.

After the war, he laid the foundations for artificial intelligence. Having been declared homosexual, he was required to undergo hormonal treatment and chemical castration which caused him great suffering. At the age of 42, he was found dead in his apartment with a bitten apple lying next to his bed, hence the popular opinion that he ended his life with an apple injected with cyanide. Many years after his death, a young genius named Steve Jobs chose a bitten apple as the trademark of his company “Apple”. Some say he did it in Honor and in memory of the genius who was ahead of his time, Alan Turing. Read the full text