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Module 8 Assignment 1:: The Imitation Game

1. The document discusses Alan Turing, who helped shorten World War 2 but was persecuted for being gay. 2. There are no unclear parts about the video, but historical conspiracy theories about what really happened to Hitler remain mysterious. 3. The author used to think great minds were problem-free, but learned intelligence can be oppressed and wars won through wit rather than just violence.

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Module 8 Assignment 1:: The Imitation Game

1. The document discusses Alan Turing, who helped shorten World War 2 but was persecuted for being gay. 2. There are no unclear parts about the video, but historical conspiracy theories about what really happened to Hitler remain mysterious. 3. The author used to think great minds were problem-free, but learned intelligence can be oppressed and wars won through wit rather than just violence.

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MODULE 8 ASSIGNMENT 1: The Imitation Game

1. Three things that I significantly learned from the video clip:

War was intelligent. Alan Turing, the man who shortened the second world war

into two years, was the father of modern computer and artificial intelligence. He was

depicted to be homosexual. He was gay. And it didn’t matter what wonders his brain

held. It was illegal to be gay or even have the slightest relation with the same sex. It was

considered mad. No matter what contributions he made to win the war, no matter how

brilliant his mind was, the root of the killings was first and foremost, discrimination,

bigotry and hate. It is amazing that the computers we use now, the applications we run,

the games we play, the A.I.’s and now the robots we developed came from a mind that

persevered even with all the injustice and bigotry done to him. It was trial and error but in

the end, it was always human error and apathy.

2. Three things that are still unclear to me

There was nothing unclear to me, movie-wise. Historically, though, at the time of

the most controversial era and wartime, all the conspiracy theories of what really

happened to the Nazi and Adolf Hitler is and would always be a mystery to me.

3. I used to think that

Great minds were free of problems, yet they were full of it. One cannot fathom

the capacity of the brain. One cannot fathom really what works in the mind of something
that holds an idea. War, I thought, was the art of weaponry and violence. Little did we

know that war can be won by wit and intelligence, often times the traits that one is shun

and shamed on. But we need to persevere, bigotry can be changed as long as we have the

empathy in our hearts. But in the end, one would have his/her limit. No matter how great

our inventions were or how great our contribution to the world was, it will always be a

cause to tire our hearts out and just give up.

4. Three questions that I want to ask about the video

After, the second world war, was the “illegal” act of having relations with the

same sex aborted because of the contributions of Alan Turing or was it still a long battle

up until now? What drives the mind mad? Was it the medications or was it society? Great

minds and Fragile hearts, cruel times and hopeful moments—World War II.

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