Do computers think? It isn't a new question. In fact, Alan Turing, a British mathematician, proposed an experiment to answer the question in 1950 and the test, known as the Turing test, is still used today. In the experiment a group of people are asked to

The article here gives the information about the turing test proposed by Alan Turing to validate the computers if they can actually think or not. In this test the group of person is subjected to interact through a computer terminal with another person of computer. And the success or failure is subjected to response from test taker at the end. The article provides here two continuous reasons of support. However the professor explains that the turing test checks the behaviour of computer rather than actually answering the primary question and refutes each of the author's reason.

First, the author claims that in turing test, the one who takes test can ask any question and there is an answer from the other side. If the answer resembles to what is expected than the computer passes the test. But the professor refutes to this point by giving the example of chinese room. In this example a monolingual british man is giving the test, and the other side there is a chinese person asking question. The chinese person asks the question in chinese language. The british person shouldn't be able to give answer, but if he considers this question as a sequence of characters and the related material is available then he would be able to answer the question regardless of its meaning.

The professor from example implies that, similar is the case with computer. If a computer has enough relevant material for the question then it would pass the turing test. And this is the thing that most computers are programmed for. And with this the professor concludes that the main question whether the computer can think or not is not answered, as the computer was programmed to respond behaviorally not logically.

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Average: 7.1 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 407, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...here two continuous reasons of support. However the professor explains that the turing ...
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Line 3, column 135, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...there is an answer from the other side. If the answer resembles to what is expecte...
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Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: ASK_THE_QUESTION[1]
Message: Use simply 'asks' instead.
Suggestion: asks
...son asking question. The chinese person asks the question in chinese language. The british person...
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Line 3, column 494, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...in chinese language. The british person shouldnt be able to give answer, but if he consi...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... question regardless of its meaning. The professor from example implies that, si...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, so, then

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1419.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89310344828 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4787059836 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479310344828 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 435.6 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5443235901 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.6 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.86666666667 7.06452816374 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300373603659 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106994701756 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730806396708 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206852022738 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0410996202802 0.0443174109184 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

Don't need a conclusion paragraph.

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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