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ring Test. In October 1950, the British journal Mind published an essay by Alan M. Turing titled, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," in which Turing proposed an operational definition for "intelligence" [2]. This definition would come to be called "the Turing Test." Turing himself called it "the

t different one in which the interrogator was to attempt to determine the gender of two contestants, one male the other female. Interesting because Turing was homosexual and perhaps accustomed to such an imitation game. But in the matter of intelligence, such an operational definition made some sense

urteen of them to add to the above four for a Turing Test. In October 1950, the British journal Mind published an essay by Alan M. Turing titled, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," in which Turing proposed an operational definition for "intelligence" [2]. This definition would come to be called "the Turing

abbage — but he was the first to fully understand its power. When we talk about computers today we mean machines, but it is worth noting computers in Turing’s time were more often humans using pencil and paper. The mechanical computers before Turing were elementary at best. Rudimentary calculating machi

not Turing complete and his Analytical Engine has never been built. 19" Century Calculators HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015706 Mind over Computer 17 In 1935, Turing was made a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and became interested in whether mathematical proofs could be found automatically. He wanted to know

to be, to call it - or should I say ‘him - intelligent? How could I judge this had happened? Alan Turing proposed an ingenious test in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence using “The Imitation Game? We now call the Turing Test. If we ask a series of questions to a computer and we cannot tell its respon

ere? A dim, honest, slow-multiplying human? Impossible to tell. The distinction between machine and man blurred a bit. Buried in the very premise of Turing’s test was an assumption about what machines could do, and how they might do it. “The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that t

machine, passing Turing’s Test — thinking like a human - was an interesting challenge. But more interesting 257 “Can machines think”: A. M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” Mind 49 (1950), 433 188 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018420 was a machine that could think in ways a human could never understand, let alone