Within an hour of first reading Turing’s famous 1951 article, I had conceived a machine capable not only of passing but of surpassing Turing’s imitation game. My machine surpasses Turing’s hypothetical machine because it allows me to remove the veil of secrecy between the judge and the machine. My machine surpasses Turing’s hypothetical machine because it would fool all human judges all of the time. The machine? It is a scarecrow with a fan behind it blowing its right arm back and forth.* From a sufficient distance any human observer would instantly judge that scarecrow to be intelligent.
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* A more macabre instantiation of this machine might use a cadaver, positioned standing erect with its right hand raised, moved back and forth by an electric motor. Playback of a recorded human voice might be included in order to prolong the subterfuge.
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