I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’
This part of the first sentence depicts Turing's intentions for the essay by addressing a question he looks to answer throughout the text. While later on he looks to compare the question with a game, his overall intentions and purpose of this essay is to answer the question 'Can machines think?'
Instead of attempting such a deWnition I shall replace the questionby another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambigu-ous words.
This is the "kicker" in the introduction because Turing starts his first sentence with a question, and this sentence, the last in the introduction, criticizes the question he is looking to answer. Turing points out how his original question can be answered in various amounts of ways and he now seeks to find a path that will lead to just 1 definitive answer, which he does in the following paragraph by relating it to a game.
Again I do not know what theright answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried
This is one of the key sentences in the essay because it leaves the reader pondering about the advancement of computers and technology in general for the future. A man is smart as Turing doesn't even know how to approach technological advancements, meaning that there is still a lot of progress that can be made with computers.
We now ask the question, ‘What will happen when a machine takes the part ofA in this game?’ Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game isplayed like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman?
This sentence is important to the question Turing wishes to pursue because it portrays the machine as one of the players in the imitation game. This sentence describes the machines role in the game and directly correlates the machines contribution to the game with the question 'Can machines think?', which as Turing said, is an arbitrary question leaving the definitions of "machines" and "think" up to the reader.