

The present work offers a study of Turing’s rules for the test in the context of his advocated purpose and his other texts. According to the literal reading, the goal of the machine was to simulate a man imitating a woman, while the interrogator - unaware of the real purpose of the test - was attempting to determine which of the two contestants was the woman and which was the man. According to the standard reading of Turing’s words, the goal of the interrogator was to discover which was the human being and which was the machine, while the goal of the machine was to be indistinguishable from a human being. Two readings of Turing’s rules for the test have been given.

In the 1950s, Alan Turing proposed his influential test for machine intelligence, which involved a teletyped dialogue between a human player, a machine, and an interrogator.
