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It's not just the female "computers" who did the calculations that helped break the Enigma code, or the seamstresses who made Nasa's first spacesuits.
If you lopped off the post-war Manchester scenes and those of Turing's schooldays, this would be a conventional Second World War adventure thriller about the race against time to break the Enigma code.
This is the famous "Turing test," named for Alan Turing, the tragic gay British genius who helped break the Enigma code, and who first proposed that the true test for artificial intelligence was to see if, cut off by a "black curtain," you would be able to tell a machine's answer from a human's in a natural-language conversation.
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