[\u2026] the \u201cimitation game\u201d [\u2026] 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. [\u2026] It is A\u2019s object in the game to try and cause C to make the wrong identification.\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\n
There are a lot of details, but that\u2019s the basic game: A is trying to convince C that he is a woman and that B is a man pretending to be a woman.\r\n
We now ask the question, \u201cWhat will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\n
So. What I had thought, for many years, is that C is still attempting to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman<\/i>, and is unaware that either might be a machine. And in that circumstance\u2014C\u2019s focus is A\u2019s sex (or gender), not its machine nature\u2014if it is not obvious to C that A is a machine, then A passes the test.\r\n
Reading it again, though, it reads as if we were to replace the word \u2018man\u2019 with \u2018machine\u2019\u2014C\u2019s goal is to determine which of the two is the machine and which is the woman. That\u2019s significantly different, isn\u2019t it?\r\n
In the rest of the paper, Mr. Turing did not develop the idea that C was trying to learn something about A that was not<\/i> its machine nature. Instead, he talks more generally about A (or A\u2019s constructor) trying to fool C, and the possibility of that happening.\r\n
So: have I been interpreting the test wrong all these years? Is Alan Turing\u2019s writing sloppy on this point? Does it matter?\r\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
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