VOX - The Student Journal of Politics, Economics and Philosophy
Could a machine think? By Moses Lemuel
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his question is certainly not new. In 1950, Alan Turing devised
a test to answer it. A machine needs only to exhibit the ability to communicate like a human being to pass what 18
is now known as the Turing Test (TT). However, does it really prove that a machine thinks? In this short essay, I will examine the possibility of thinking machines with reference to the TT,