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The imitation of intelligence in isolation from other human attributes seems to be the main point in Alan Turing’s Computer Machinery and Intelligence where he considers the question “Can machines think?” Using his “imitation game” I agree that Turing su ....

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.... interrogator addresses the players as X and Y. The challenging element to the experiment is that the man will be trying to convince the interrogator that he is in fact the woman. Turing’s motivation for creating the Imitation Game was not in line with gender issues so, to answer the question, “Can machines think?” the man (given as A) is substituted for a machine.2 The type of machine used is limited to a digital computer. This is by no means a limitation as foreseen by Turing that “in about fifty years time one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted”.3 Speaking of machines thinking is one thing ....