‘‘Not until amachine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts andemotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machineequals brain—that is, not only write it but know that it had written it.
I thought this was an interesting argument as I have a similar opinion that if a machine cannot feel certain things, how can it create something meaningful that could be know as its own creation.
The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which wecall the ‘imitation game’
I see this part of the Introduction as being the "kicker". this is because it shifts the focus from a boring definition of two words to a seemingly amusing game that could solve the original question Turing posed.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needsto be done
I thought this was one of the key sentences of the text as it relays the purpose of Turing's question. Although things like this machine may not be possible as of right now, there are so many possibilities that will present themselves in the future and thinking about these things can prove very critical in our evolution as humans.
The view that ‘themachine can only do what we know how to order it to do’5appears strange inface of this. Most of the programmes which we can put into the machine willresult in its doing something that we cannot make sense of at all,
I though this was an interesting sentence because of how Turing is confident that the machine will do unpredictable things, which I thought would be unlikely since it is all programmed.
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.
I think this is an important sentence because Turing suggests using a different method to help set up the original question he wished to pursue. He does this by using a game as part of the new problem, which seems to simplify the purpose of his original question.
As well as asking, ‘What is the answer to this new form of the question’, one mayask, ‘Is this new question a worthy one to investigate?’ This latter question weinvestigate without further ado, thereby cutting short an inWnite regress
I believe this extended sentence provides the reader with Turing's intentions for this essay and what specific topics he wants to discuss within it.