The Turing Test
"The Can Computers Think?" debate raises fundamental questions about human identity, for humans have always been defined as the rational species. What if actual reasoning could be incorporated into computers? Humans would then no longer be as unique as thought. This is a difficult concept for many to digest; therefore people have a hard time believing the possibility that computers may be able to think. This controversy is of constant debate, especially when IBM's Deep Blue computer beat the top human at chess on TV as millions watched. Unable to comprehend that computers may be intelligent, the computer must first pass a test to determine if in fact they are or are not intelligent. This test is known as the Turing Test. The Turing Test is a behavioral approach to determining whether or not a system is intelligent. Alan Turing believes that "conversation is the key to judging intelligence." In the Turing test, a judge has conversations with a human and a machine. Both subjects try to convince the judge that it is human. The conversations can be about anything, and proceed for a set amount of time. The judge bases his answer entirely upon the content of their answers. If at the end of this time the judge cannot distinguish th
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