雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第9章:退隱山林(99)

It could be done either by 'something like a roulette wheel or a supply of radium'—that is, by the kind of random number generator that worked like the Rockex tape generator, off random noise—or else by machines 'whose behaviour appears quite random to anyone who does not know the details of their construction.'

他說"可以通過輪盤賭或者利用鐳，對於不知道其內部結構的人們來說，機器能夠表現出非常隨機化的行爲。"——其實這就是勞凱克斯的隨機數發生器，

His listeners could scarcely have imagined the secrets which lay behind that bland suggestion!

但是聽衆們當然想象不到，這背後隱藏着這麼大的祕密。

He ended with his justification for investigating machine intelligence:

圖靈以自己對機器智能研究的評述做爲結束：

The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us greatly in finding out how we think ourselves.

整個思維過程，對我們來說仍然神祕，但是我相信，嘗試建造具有思維的機器，將極大地有助於我們探索人類的思維機制。

This short talk did not include any details of how he proposed to program a machine to think, beyond the remark that it 'should bear a close relation to that of teaching.'

這個簡短的訪談節目，無法覆蓋圖靈關於機器思維的編程細節，他只說"這是一種訓練式的過程。

This comment sparked off an immediate reaction in a listener: Christopher Strachey, the son of Ray and Oliver Strachey.

"有一位聽衆，對此非常感興趣，並且立刻做出反應，他就是奧利文·斯特拉齊的兒子，克里斯朵夫·斯特拉齊。

Though born to a codebreaker father and mathematician mother, Christopher Strachey had not particularly stood out as a King's mathematics student from 1935 to 1938, and after wartime radar work was teaching at Harrow School.

克里斯朵夫·斯特拉齊於1935年到1938年在國王學院學習數學，雖然他的父親是密碼分析專家，母親是數學家，但他本人在數學方面並不突出。他在戰時從事雷達方面的工作，戰後在哈羅公學教書。

But the idea of machine intelligence grabbed his attention rather as it had Alan's.

機器智能的想法，立刻吸引了他，正如這個想法當初吸引了圖靈一樣。

In 1951 a mutual friend put him in touch with Mike Woodger at the NPL, and he embarked upon writing adraughts program for the new Pilot ACE.

1951年，通過朋友介紹，他與國家物理實驗室的伍格取得聯絡，併爲新的ACE原型機編寫程序。

By May he was also working with the Turing Programmers' Handbook with an eye to using the Manchester machine.

五月時，他學習了圖靈的《編程人員手冊》，並得知了曼徹斯特的機器。

On the evening of the broadcast he wrote a long letter57 to Alan, with ambitious plans:

在廣播節目播出的當晚，他給圖靈寫了一封很長的信，雄心勃勃地訴說了他的計劃：

... The essential thing which would have to be done first, would be to get the machine to programme itself from very simple and general input data...

首先必須要做的事，就是讓機器能夠根據最簡單和一般化的輸入，爲其自身生成程序...