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  1. Sep 2020
    1. 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?These questions replace our original, ‘Can machines think?’

      This is an important sentence in the essay because it explains how the imitation game works and how a computer will be incorporated into it. The computer will take the position of player A and will try to confuse the interrogator, so they don't know who is who.

    2. Computing Machinery and Intelligence1. The Imitation GameI propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’

      I really liked how Turing straight away in his essay introduced what he was going to address. This technique made the essay more straightforward and easy to follow because I know what he is arguing and talking about.

    3. 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.The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which wecall the ‘imitation game’.

      These two sentences tell the reader how Turing is going to ask the question in another way. He is going to see if machines can actually think by using the 'imitation game.' I found it really interesting how Turing did not define the terms of 'machine' and 'think' because they would not help prove his point.