How Turing's Simple Question Built AI—And Why It Remains Unanswered

Alan Turing's 1950 paper transformed the vague question 'Can machines think?' into a precise philosophical framework that became the foundation of artificial intelligence research. Seventy-five years later, this core question remains fundamentally unanswered, revealing that AI's deepest challenge is not technical but philosophical—forcing us to grapple with what 'thinking' and 'intelligence' actually mean.