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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.

<P><STRONG>Parsing the Turing Test</STRONG> 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. </P>
<P>Foreword by Daniel C. Dennett.</P>

Most comprehensive analysis of The Turing Test - the ultimate benchmark of true artificial intelligence ever published Features new contributions from 37 eminent scholars in computer science, psychology and philosophy, including Ray Kurzwell, Noam Chomsky, Paul Churchland, John R. Searle and Andrew Hodges Includes running commentaries by Stevan Harnad, Kenneth Ford, Pat Hayes and others on Alan Turing's classic paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" Includes an introduction by eminent philospher Daniel C. Dennett Special emphasis on methodological issues - programming challenges facing developers of true artificial intelligence, by Douglas B. Lenat, Michael L. Mauldin and other prominent programmers