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The Posthuman
ENGL 165EC - Spring 2003,  Rita Raley
Thu, 5/1 The History of the Present

Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," Mind 59: 236 (1950): 433-460

"I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think.""

[the imitation game]: "The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the "imitation game." It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) 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 "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B."


 



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