The Turing Test
Subtitle: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press; A Bradford Book; Bradford Books
Published: June 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780262692939
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; General Theory of Computing; Intelligence; Computers; Philosophy; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; History & Surveys - General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Turing test
First sentence: Can machines think?
Description: "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." The writings collected for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and published in the journal Mind, proposed an "indistinguishability test" that compared artifact and person. Following Descartes' dictum that it is the ability to speak that distinguishes human from beast, Turing suggested testing whether machine and person were indistinguishable in regard to verbal ability. He was not, as is often assumed, answering the question "Can machines think?" but offering a more concrete way to ask it. Turing's thought experiment encapsulates the issues that the writings in The Turing Test define and discuss."--Jacket.