Food for thought: Alan Turing was born in 1912, and Grindr launched in 2009. So there’s a chance that Turing could have lived to see (or helped found) Grindr, if the world had been gentler to him.

Okay, but if Alan Turing were alive today, he would be fascinated with the mathematics of the transformer architecture that modern LLMs use. Societal implications aside, the way machine learning has evolved is fascinating. I’d bet even something "intro to machine learning"y like a small, deep neural network (DNN) with backpropagation would be incredible to him. Even just an individual neuron in that DNN is its own perceptron, something that itself came years after Turing’s death in 1954. The Turing test sees a lot of emphasis among people who don’t know much about how machine learning actually works (or the rare philosopher who does), but Turing was a mathematician who would’ve loved to see how statistical processes govern modern AI instead of a preprogrammed decision tree. (Also, you’d have to be smoking crack and know zero about the field of AI or its history if you think Turing wouldn’t consider something like ChatGPT “AI”.)