Parsing the Turing Test Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Epstein, Robert (Editor), Roberts, Gary (Editor), Beber, Grace (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the Stage
  • The Quest for the Thinking Computer
  • Alan Turing and the Turing Test
  • Computing Machinery and Intelligence
  • Commentary on Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
  • The Ongoing Philosophical Debate
  • The Turing Test
  • If I Were Judge
  • Turing on the “Imitation Game”
  • On the Nature of Intelligence
  • Turing’s Test
  • The Turing Test: 55 Years Later
  • Doing Justice to the Imitation Game
  • The New Methodological Debates
  • How to Hold a Turing Test Contest
  • The Anatomy of A.L.I.C.E.
  • The Social Embedding of Intelligence
  • How My Program Passed the Turing Test
  • Building a Machine Smart Enough to Pass the Turing Test
  • Mind as Space
  • Can People Think? Or Machines?
  • The Turing Hub as a Standard for Turing Test Interfaces
  • Conversation Simulation and Sensible Surprises
  • A Computational Behaviorist Takes Turing’s Test
  • Bringing AI to Life
  • Laplace, Turing and the “Imitation Game” Impossible Geometry
  • Going Under Cover: Passing as Human
  • How not to Imitate a Human Being
  • Who Fools Whom?
  • Afterthoughts on Thinking Machines
  • A Wager on the Turing Test
  • The Gnirut Test
  • The Artilect Debate