This document summarizes Alan Turing's seminal 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" which proposed what is now known as the Turing Test. The Turing Test involves an interrogator determining which of two entities, a human or computer, they are communicating with via teletyped responses. Turing argued that if a computer could successfully pass as human, it should be considered thinking. The document outlines Turing's description of the "Imitation Game" protocol and responses to philosophical counterarguments against the possibility of machine thought. It concludes by noting the impact of Turing's work on artificial intelligence and philosophy of computing.

1. Alan Turing “ Computing Machinery and Intelligence” – Referencing The New Media Reader, Wardrip-Fruin & Montfort