Parsing the Turing Test [electronic resource] : Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer / edited by Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts, Grace Beber.

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.

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 it immediately jump into the Internet and create a World Mind? Will intelligent computers someday recognize the rather doubtful intelligence of human beings? Distinguished psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, and programmers from around the world debate these weighty issues – and, in effect, the future of the human race – in this important volume. Foreword by Daniel C. Dennett.