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Computers can't make mistakes

Computers differ from humans in that humans can make mistakes, whereas computers can't. Computers are easily unmasked in the Turing Test because humans frequently make mistakes in complex arithmetic whereas computers never do.

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Argument anticipated by Alan Turing (1950).

Note: for more on the Turing Test see Map 2.

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