Turingrade
Turingrade
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An ai of baseline human equivalent intelligence and sapience. The first turinggrade AI machines were developed in the first century AT as the result of several different development paths, but were very naive entities when first constructed. At first turing-grade AIs were limited to physically large computer substrates, so were not mobile; the first fully mobile human-equivalent robots were not developed until many decades later.

Note that (except for an association with Atomic Age mathematician Alan Turing) this term is not related to the concept of the Turing Machine, which is an idealised concept in information technology describing a theoretical computer which manipulates symbols on an infinite strip of tape.
 
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev

Initially published on 31 December 2007.