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.

"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. TOC:From the contents

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.