Turing is a strange character. He's lovely but he's very likely autistic. He was obsessed with Snow White which had recently been aired. And he bit from a poison apple, an apple that he dipped in cyanide. Turing does invent the computer in this indirect way because he starts what he's really thinking about is mechanizing thought. So he's really the father of AI but then he says we are machines that think.

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