Parsing the Turing Test

Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer

By: Robert Epstein (Editor), Gary Roberts (Editor), Grace Beber (Editor)

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Parsing the Turing Test is a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do? When a computer crosses the threshold into self-consciousness, will it immediately jump into the Internet and create a World Mind? Will intelligent computers someday recognize the rather doubtful intelligence of human beings? Distinguished psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, and programmers from around the world debate these weighty issues - and, in effect, the future of the human race - in this important volume.

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
About the Editors
Setting the Stage
The Quest for the Thinking Computer
Alan Turing and the Turing Test
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Commentary on TuringG++s G++Computing Machinery and IntelligenceG++
The Ongoing Philosophical Debate
The Turing Test: Mapping and Navigating the Debate
If I Were Judge
Turing on the G++Imitation GameG++
On the Nature of Intelligence: Turing, Church, Von Neumann, And the Brain
TuringG++s Test: A Philosophical and Historical Guide
The Turing Test: 55 Years Later
Doing Justice to the Imitation Game: A Farewell to Formalism
The New Methodological Debates
How to Hold a Turing Test Contest
The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E
The Social Embedding of Intelligence: Towards Producing a Machine That Could Pass the Turing Test
How My Program Passed the Turing Test
Building a Machine Smart Enough to Pass the Turing Test: Could We, Should We, Will We?
Mind as Space: Toward The Automatic Discovery of a Universal Human Semantic-Affective Hyperspace G++ A Possible Subcognitive Foundation of a Computer Program Able to Pass the Turing Test
Can People Think? Or Machines? A Unified Protocol for Turing Testing
The Turing Hub as a Standard for Turing Test Interfaces
Conversation Simulation and Sensible Surprises
A Computational Behaviorist Takes TuringG++s Test
Bringing AI to Life: Putting TodayG++s Tools and Resources to Work
Laplace, Turing and the G++Imitation GameG++ Impossible Geometry: Randomness, Determinism and Programs in TuringG++s Test
Going Under Cover: Passing as Human; Artificial Interest: A Step on the Road to AI
How Not to Imitate a Human Being: An Essay on Passing the Turing Test
Who Fools Whom? The Great Mystification, or Methodological Issues on Making Fools of Human Beings
Afterthoughts on Thinking Machines
A Wager on the Turing Test
The Gnirut Test
The Artilect Debate: Why Build Super-Human Machines, and Why Not?
Name Index
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