Over time I have been changed quite a lot.I began as a calculating machine
in France in 1642.Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums.I
developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was
built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.After I was programmed
by an operator who used cards with holes,I could "think" logically and
produce an answer quicker than any person.At that time it was considered
a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence".
In 1936 my real father,Alan Turing,wrote a book about how I could be made
to work as a "universal machine" to solve any difficult mathematical
problem.From then on,I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.By
the 1940s I had grown as large as a room,and I wondered if I would grow
any larger.However,this reality also worried my designers.As time went
by,I was made smaller.First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a
laptop,I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.
These changes only became possible as my memory improved.First it was
stored in tubes,then on transistors and later on very small chips.As a
result I totally changed my shape.As I have grown older I have also
grown smaller.Over time my memory has developed so much that,like an
elephant,I never forget anything I have been told!And my memory became
so large that even I couldn't believe it!But I was always so lonely
standing there by myself,until in the early 1960s they gave me a family
connected by a network.I was able to share my knowledge with others
through the World Wide Web.
Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me.I have
become very important in communication,finance and trade.I have also
been put into robots and used to make mobile phones as well as help
with medical operations.I have even been put into space rockets and
sent to explore the Moon and Mars.Anyhow,my goal is to provide humans
with a life of high quality.I am now truly filled with happiness that
I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race!