#hermann had a boy crush on alan turing when he was younger canon

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A.L.A.N ; Artificial Linguistic Answering Network

Thanks to my dear sister, @get-shortcaked (Blithe) for helping me with the layout.

Turing Test debacle + Smidge of Hermann angst woahh

In the novelization of Pacific Rim, there is a section with the following.

" Gottlieb was soldering together a robot can I build an intelligence that will pass a Turing test and if I could of course I can I must never say anything about it until it is done or Father will "

This suggests that young Hermann had planned to create and build a robot/artificial intelligence that could potentially pass the Turing Test.

The Turing test is, as the Oxford Language site explains, " a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both. "

And so me and Blithe went down the RABIT hole (pun intended) and we came up with the idea that Hermann did actually attempt at cracking the Turing Test (around early 2000s), but failed. He later used the model for his personal use as some sort of friend/adviser. However, he quickly dropped it as he slowly felt that the mere concept of talking to a robot about his woes to be embarrassing.

A.L.A.N is a model that takes heavy inspiration from E.L.I.Z.A, who was originally programmed in 1966, the first 'artificial intelligence' to attempt the Turing Test. Like E.L.I.Z.A, A.L.A.N is programmed to have the personality of a psychotherapist.

Also, A.L.A.N, Alan Turing. The name was Blithe's idea.