<human>:  Who invented the ‘connection machine’?
<bot>: The Connection Machine was invented by Alan Turing in the 1950s. The Connection Machine is a type of artificial intelligence machine that was designed to be a general purpose computing device. The Connection Machine was designed to be a “universal” computing machine that could be programmed to perform any task that a human could perform. The Connection Machine was not successful because it was too slow and too expensive to build, but it was a great proof of concept.