Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Answers

• Q01THINKING

  Can a machine originate an idea that its maker did not supply?

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• Q02THINKING

  Would a machine's ability to converse appropriately be sufficient evidence that it thinks?

  Yes. conversational performance is the appropriate test. Replaces 'Can machines think?' with the imitation game: a machine that converses indistinguishably from a human should be credited as we credit other people.

  Section 1, 'The Imitation Game' · Web search: Mind 59 (1950), 433–460; sources confirm the imitation-game framing. Not public domain; no link given.

• Q03THINKING

  Can a machine exercise judgment when faced with circumstances its maker did not anticipate?

  Yes. a learning machine can meet situations its programmer did not foresee. Turing distinguishes a trained machine from a computation whose internal state the operator aims to follow. The omitted continuation allows some prediction of its behaviour; opacity alone does not establish judgment. Brief extract: the full pp.458–459 discussion should be reviewed before making a sorting pool.

  Summary disputed by reviewer: Brief quotation checked against the original scan; full passage and inherited draft category need review.

  An important feature of a learning machine is that its teacher will often be very largely ignorant of quite what is going on inside […]

  Mind 59 (1950), section 7, p.458; paragraph continues on p.459 · Compared with printed page image by Codex, 28 Oct 2026; historian review pending. Line breaks and spacing normalized.