people are used to talk to people i like that anthropic called their ai product claude after claude shannon, the founder of the information theory my hero is **alan turing**, so it's only meaningful to call cogit's ai **alan** turing was a mathematician and computer scientist in britain in early-mid xx century - one of the **inventors of artificial intelligence**, a preeminent researcher in the field - author of the **turing machine** (the first kind of a universal computer), which becase the fundamental model of digital computers we still use today - the **imitation game** or turing test (of how we can tell a machine and a human apart by talking to them), that for years has been used as a go-to benchmark for artificial intelligence - the **halting problem** (about decidability and the limits of computation), which is a crucial discovery in the questions of computability and limits of what algorithms can give answers to - as one of the world's best cryptographers, he led a group of scientists tasked with **breaking enigma**, a cryptographic device of the nazi germany, which they succeeded at and saved millions of lives - despite his wartime service, he got **prosecuted as a homosexual** under abhorrent laws of the time - being forced to choose between prison and chemical castration, he chose the latter. and later died under weird circumstances, many suspecting he'd committed suicide he called his enigma decryptor **christopher** to honor of his friend who died from tuberculosis in homage of the greatest scientist of all time **alan** is the name of cogit ai ---