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Will computers ever think? This question has had many people wondering for years. Everybody wants to know if computers can have intelligent conversations and think for themselves. Alan Turing devised a test to let people begin to consider the fact that computers have a mind of their own. This would later be called the Turing test. The test is, “what is called the Imitation Game (IG). The game is played with a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) whose gender is unimportant. The interrogator stays in a room apart from A and B. The objective of the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the woman while the objective of both the man and the woman is to convince the interrogator that he/she is the woman and the other is not…What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game? Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman?” Basically, the man and the woman are going to ask questions and try and fool the computer. They are going to try and get the computer to think it is something or someone else so that it will get the questions wrong. If the computer gets it right then they have to won