Computer love: exhibition celebrates Manchester’s tech lineage

Can machines imitate human life? This question, which underpins our ever-escalating engagement with Artificial Intelligence, was posed by the pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing while he was working at the University of Manchester in 1950.
Now, eight artists explore the legacy of Turing’s ideas through a series of robots, machines, video installations and performances in an exhibifration at Manchester Art Gallery, which opened over the weekend.
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