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  <Title>Introducing MegaHAL</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician who played a great role in the development of the computer. The imitation game, nowadays known as the Turing test, was devised by Turing as a method for deciding whether or not a computer program is intelligent.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The Turing test takes place between an interrogator and two subjects. The interrogator communicates with these subjects via a computer terminal, and must decide which is a human being and which is a computer program. The human being helps the interrogator to make the correct identification, while the computer program attempts to trick the interrogator into making the wrong identification. If the latter case occurs, the computer program is said to be exhibiting intelligence (Turing, 1992).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> One of the great advantages of the Turing test is that it allows the interrogator to evaluate almost all of the evidence that we would assume to constitute thinking (Moor, 1976). For instance, the interrogator can pose hypothetical situations in order to ask the subjects how they would react.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Alan Turing died in 1954, a decade before conversation simulators such as ELIZA emerged. It is indeed unfortunate that he did not live to witness his test being performed. One cannot help but think that he would have been disappointed.</Paragraph>
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