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The Turing Test Of Hathaway

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If Wilder gave the Turing Test to one of Hathaway’s robot family members, she would fail because she lacks a conscience. The interrogator would be able to tell that each family member is not human. The Turing Test, when used to detect human from robot, relies on an interrogator identifying which of the players is human and which is machine. The family members lack the awareness to answer all questions in a way that would trick the interrogator. This lack of awareness is apparent when Bradburry describes the wife coming out of the hut and “for no reason at all… looks at the sky, her hands up” (462). The author makes it clear that the character is not conscientious of the reason she is raising her hands, she just does so because she saw Hathaway
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