Unorganized machine

An unorganized machine is a concept mentioned in a 1948 report by Alan Turing titled "Intelligent Machinery", in which he suggested that the infant human cortex was what he called an "unorganised machine".^[1]^[2] It remained unpublished until 1969.^[3]

^ Turing's 1948 paper has been re-printed as Turing AM. Intelligent Machinery. In: Ince DC, editor. Collected works of AM Turing — Mechanical Intelligence. Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992.
^ Webster CS. Alan Turing's unorganized machines and artificial neural networks: his remarkable early work and future possibilities. Evolutionary Intelligence 2012: 5; 35–43.
^ Meltzer B, Michie D (eds) (1969) Machine intelligence, vol 5, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp 3–23

[1] Turing's 1948 paper has been re-printed as Turing AM. Intelligent Machinery. In: Ince DC, editor. Collected works of AM Turing — Mechanical Intelligence. Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992.

[2] Webster CS. Alan Turing's unorganized machines and artificial neural networks: his remarkable early work and future possibilities. Evolutionary Intelligence 2012: 5; 35–43.

[3] Meltzer B, Michie D (eds) (1969) Machine intelligence, vol 5, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp 3–23

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