Turing and Grice: The Implicature Game -- Dirty Joke Cleaned Up

Speranza

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/26/the_imitation_game_benedict_cumberbatch_invents_computer_wins_war/

"Turing would very likely have qualified for an autism diagnosis, along with a not-inconsiderable number of other scientists, mathematicians and engineers who understand systems and numbers far better than people."

"During the most effective scenes of “The Imitation Game,” you can see that Turing, so far ahead of other people’s comprehension when it comes to the possibilities of electronic intelligence, simply cannot keep up with them in other contexts."

"He simply does not understand that the sentence,

“Alan, we’re going to lunch”

is meant as an invitation."

"A dirty joke is even worse: he doesn’t grasp the nature of the joke itself, and does not share the lustful view of women it assumes."