lpetrich
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I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE | Mind | Oxford Academic by Alan Turing
Something like this:
The chess notation is descriptive notation, which has gone out of style. What's universally used nowadays is algebraic notation, and translating it into algebraic notation has some ambiguity. Here's a version in algebraic notation: white king at e1, black king at e3, black rook at h8, black's rook. To win, black plays Rh1.
As to the Forth Bridge, I'm unfamiliar with it. I'd have more to say about the Golden Gate Bridge, however.
He then goes on to describe what he called the imitation game. It's looking from outside and asking whether a computer can act as if it thinks, a sort of behaviorist definition of thinking.I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think’. 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 ‘machine’ and ‘think’ 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, ‘Can machines think?’ 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.
Something like this:
The number answer is incorrect. It is really 105721. Seems like an effort to simulate human thinking, complete with not remembering a carry digit.Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.
A: Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry.
Q: Add 34957 to 70764
A: (Pause about 30 seconds and then give as answer) 105621.
Q: Do you play chess?
A: Yes.
Q: I have K at my K1, and no other pieces. You have only K at K6 and R at R1. It is your move. What do you play?
A: (After a pause of 15 seconds) R-R8 mate.
The chess notation is descriptive notation, which has gone out of style. What's universally used nowadays is algebraic notation, and translating it into algebraic notation has some ambiguity. Here's a version in algebraic notation: white king at e1, black king at e3, black rook at h8, black's rook. To win, black plays Rh1.
As to the Forth Bridge, I'm unfamiliar with it. I'd have more to say about the Golden Gate Bridge, however.