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In 1798 Joseph Fourier, a 30-year-old professor at the

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There?s no denying the ferocity and downright epic episode of television that was Game of Thrones? penultimate episode, ?The Watchers on The Wall.? There was intrigue, excitement, visual intensity, and a heck of a lot of magic ? even beyond Dany?s dragons. The world of Westeros is changing ? spinnin…

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer in 1951. Photo: SSPL/Getty Images

Over the weekend, a group of programmers claimed they built a program that passed the famous Turing Test, in which a computer tries to trick judges into believing that it is a human. According to…