{"id":162172,"date":"2023-04-14T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/i-computing-machinery-and-intelligence"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:25:30","slug":"i-computing-machinery-and-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/i-computing-machinery-and-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"I.\u2014Computing Machinery And Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I propose to consider the question, \u2018Can machines think?\u2019 This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms \u2018machine\u2019 and \u2018think\u2019. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words \u2018machine\u2019 and \u2018think\u2019 are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, \u2018Can machines think?\u2019 is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words.<\/p>\n

The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the \u2018imitation game\u2019. It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator \u00a9 who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either \u2018X is A and Y is B\u2019 or \u2018X is B and Y is A\u2019. The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B thus:<\/p>\n

C: Will X please tell me the length of his or her hair? Now suppose X is actually A, then A must answer. It is A\u2019s object in the game to try and cause C to make the wrong identification. His answer might therefore be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I propose to consider the question, \u2018Can machines think?\u2019 This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms \u2018machine\u2019 and \u2018think\u2019. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words \u2018machine\u2019 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}