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Turing’s 1950 paper says that a machine programmed for the imitation game would not give the right answers to arithmetic problems but would deliberately introduce mistakes calculated to confuse the interrogator. Copy claim link
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Date 1950-10 · publication Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Concealment of capability under the designer’s game strategy; the machine has no concealed goal of its own and nothing changes after the game. It is an answer to the objection that machines cannot make mistakes, not a forecast.
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence (offprint, AMT/B/19) ↗ Mind · 1950-10
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Source excerpt “The machine (programmed for playing the game) would not attempt to give the right answers to the arithmetic problems. It would deliberately introduce mistakes in a manner calculated to confuse the interrogator.” Location in source Section 6 (5), printed p. 448 (scan 16), paragraph on the claim that machines cannot make mistakes
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Source details and check notes Authors A. M. Turing Version Original Mind offprint, scanned by the archive; printed pp. 448–449 read on the page images for this collection (scans 16–17). Offprint held by the Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind 59 (236), October 1950; offprint in the Turing Digital Archive, AMT/B/19. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted; the archive hosts the offprint with Oxford University Press’s permission. Page images are not reproduced.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Read on the page image of printed p. 448 (scan 16) for this collection; "right" is italic in print. The scan has no text layer, so no automatic check was possible. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Issue month of Mind, vol. LIX, no. 236, as catalogued for the offprint.
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