The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence

✍ Scribed by B. Jack Copeland (auth.), James H. Moor (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems 30
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1950 Alan Turing (1912-1954) published his famous article, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in the journal Mind. This article is arguably the most influential and widely read article in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. Indeed, most of the debate in the philosophy of artificial intelligence over the last fifty years concerns issues that were raised and discussed by Turing. Turing's genius was not only in developing the theory of computability but also in understanding the impact, both practical and philosophical, that computing machinery would have. Turing believed that computers, if properly designed and educated, could exhibit intelligent behavior, even behavior that would be indistinguishable from human intelligent behavior. His vision of the possibility of machine intelligence has been highly inspiring and extremely controversial. In this classic article Turing presented his well known imitation game and predicted that about the year 2000 "an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning" in the imitation game. Based on the results of the Loebner 2000 contest and the accomplishments in the field of AI, as impressive as they are, Turing's prediction remains unfulfilled.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Turing Test....Pages 1-21
Turing Test: 50 Years Later....Pages 23-78
Turing’s Two Tests for Intelligence....Pages 79-97
Making the Right Identification in the Turing Test....Pages 99-110
Turing’s Rules for the Imitation Game....Pages 111-120
Passing Loebner’s Turing Test: A Case of Conflicting Discourse Functions....Pages 121-144
The Constructibility of Artificial Intelligence (as Defined by the Turing Test)....Pages 145-150
Intelligence is not Enough: On the Socialization of Talking Machines....Pages 151-160
How to Pass a Turing Test....Pages 161-184
Look Who’s Moving the Goal Posts Now....Pages 185-195
The Status and Future of the Turing Test....Pages 197-213
Creativity, the Turing Test, and the (Better) Lovelace Test....Pages 215-239
The Cartesian Test for Automatism....Pages 241-251
Minds, Machines and Turing....Pages 253-273

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Mind; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)