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Grace Beber Gartner Consulting Stamford, CT USA Gary Roberts Teradata Corporation San Diego, CA USA Robert Epstein University of California San Diego, CA USA The bulk of this section, however, consists of papers from a broad spectrum of scholars in the fields that directly address the issue of the Turing Test as a test of intelligence.Parsing the Turing Test Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer The final section opens with responses to Turing's paper published in "Mind" soon after the paper first appeared. The second section contains all of Turing's writings on the Turing Test, including not only the "Mind" paper, but also less familiar ephemeral material. The first section of the book contains writing by philosophical precursors, including Descartes, who first proposed the idea of indistinguishability tests. Turing's proposed thought experiment encapsulates the issues that the writings in this volume define and discuss. He was not, as is often assumed, answering the question "can machines think?", but proposing a more concrete way to ask it. Following Descartes' dictum that it is the ability to speak that distinguishes human from beast, Turing proposed to test whether machine and person were indistinguishable in regard to verbal ability. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and published in the journal "Mind", proposed an "indistinguishabliity test" that compared artifact and person.
The writings collected by Shieber for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture - it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play "Breaking the Code" to the comic strip "Robotman". Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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