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CSCI 303.1W – Technical Communication for Computer Professionals

Assignment #2

Fall 2020

Due Date: Monday, October 12, 2020

Total Points: 100

In this assignment you are going to read the following research paper: “A Turing Test for Computer

Game Bots”.

Then, please answer the following questions:

1. Summarize the following paper. Your summary should be 1 to 2 pages long and should

cover the following parts:

a. The problem and its importance.

b. General description of the proposed solution.

c. The experiments conducted.

d. The results achieved.

e. Did you find this article interesting? Please justify your answer.

f. What is your critique on this paper?

2. Using the web, read then write about:

a. The Turing Test: what is its purpose, and its importance. Then, give a detailed

description of this test.

b. The ELIZA chatbot, then briefly explain how ELIZA is related to the Turing Test.

c. The Chinese Room argument, then briefly explain how it is related to the Turing

Test.

Please be careful about plagiarism, and that you do not copy somebody else’s text. There are no

constraints on the format of the paper, just make sure that each question can be uniquely identified.

The maximum page limit is 4.

What to hand in

Submit your assignment electronically through D2L. Please make sure that the file that you submit is a word

document.