Timeline for How does the title 'The Imitation Game' justify the story of the movie?
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| Apr 7, 2019 at 11:19 | comment | added | Hobbes | The name "imitation game" was derived from a Victorian parlor game where two people (a man and a woman, in different rooms) communicate with a judge by passing notes. The judge has to guess who is the man and who the woman. This is made more difficult because in the notes he writes, the man tries to imitate a woman. | |
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| Apr 12, 2018 at 14:02 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @FlyingDutchman: You're correct, IMO. Having seen the movie (and being a computer scientist), the framing device of telling the story to an interrogator isn't an imitation game, and the Turing tests of AIs are barely even mentioned during the movie. The machine-imitating-human sense is the source of the phrase and the reason for using it as the title, but not what it means in the title of the movie. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 5:15 | comment | added | Flying Dutchman | There is no doubt that the idea of the title ''The Imitaion Game'' came from the Turing's 1950 paper. But when it's about correlation of the title to the story line, Turing's personal struggles with being homosexual should also be considered. That's why @NapoleonWilson 's answer seems to be more convincing to me.By the way thanks for sharing this valuable information with us. :) | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 21:31 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | @DJClayworth I wouldn't worry about that too much. Sometimes a conclusive answer is gained by the combination of various equally valid answers. If that combination happens in a specific answer or is just a side-effect of many reasonable answers appearing on the question together is often just a technicality. | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 21:16 | comment | added | DJClayworth | A good answer would point out that the title refers to both the paper AND the imitations in Turing's life, as described by Napoleon Wilson | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 19:42 | comment | added | ibrahim mahrir | ... Interrogator: And that's this big paper you wrote? What's it called?. Turing: The Imitation Game. | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 18:58 | history | edited | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2018 at 18:47 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |