The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence (A Bradford Book)

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. Discourse On The Method, Chapter V / Rene Descartes -- Letter To The Marquess Of Newcastle / Rene Descartes -- Selections From Machine Man / Julien Offray De La Mettrie -- Computing Machinery And Intelligence / Alan M. Turing -- Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory / Alan M. Turing -- Can Digital Computers Think? / Alan M. Turing -- Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said To Think? / M.h.a. Newman [and Others] -- Do Machines Think About Machines Thinking / Leonard Pinsky -- The Imitation Game / Keith Gunderson -- Beating The Imitation Game / Richard Purtill -- In Defence Of Turing / Geoffrey Sampson -- On The Point Of The Imitation Game / P.h. Millar -- Subcognition And The Limits Of The Turing Test / Robert M. French -- Minds, Brains, And Programs / John R. Searle -- Psychologism And Behaviorism / Ned Block -- Can Machines Think? / Daniel C. Dennett -- An Analysis Of The Turing Test / James H. Moor -- Why Machines Can't Think: A Reply To James Moor / Douglas F. Stalker -- Explaining Computer Behavior / James H. Moor -- Turing On The Imitation Game / Noam Chomsky. Edited By Stuart M. Shieber. A Bradford Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [331]-339) And Index.