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This book departs from existing accounts of Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical, social, and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England, 1946-1952, over the cognitive capabilities of digital computers, which led Turing to propose...
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| Summary: | This book departs from existing accounts of Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical, social, and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England, 1946-1952, over the cognitive capabilities of digital computers, which led Turing to propose his test. It argues that the Turing test is best understood not as a practical experiment, but as a thought experiment in the modern scientific tradition of Galileo. The logic of the Turing test argument is reconstructed from the rhetoric of Turing's irony and wit. Turing believed that learning machines should be understood as a new kind of species, and their thinking as different from human thinking and yet capable of imitating it. He thought that the possibilities of the machines he envisioned were not utopian dreams. And yet he hoped that they would rival and surpass chauvinists and intellectuals who sacrifice independent thinking to maintain their power. These would be transformed into ordinary people, as work once considered 'intellectual' would be transformed into nonintellectual, 'mechanical' work. The Turing Test Argument will appeal to scholars and students in the sciences and humanities, and all those interested in Turing's vision of the future of intelligent machines in society |
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C
ONTENTS
A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS
XI
1
INTRODUCTION
1
1
.1 CAN MACHINES THINK? 1
1
.2 WHAT IS THE TURING TEST?
4
1
.3 THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK 7
1
.4 THE TURING SOURCES: CORPUS AND PERIODIZATION
12
1
.5 THE METHODS USED IN THIS BOOK 14
2
RECEPTION HISTORY, 1950-2020 21
2
.1 THE 1950S: THE EARLY RECEPTION 21
2
.2 1960S-1990S: MINDS, MACHINES, AND CONSCIOUSNESS 30
2.3 THE 1990S: AFTERMATH OF A 'SOCIAL EXPERIMENT' 35
2
.4 THE 2000S: A NEW WAVE OF COMMENTARY
42
2
.5 THE 201 OS: SOME OF THE LATEST COMMENTARY 49
2
.6 CONCLUSION 53
3
TURING'S IMITATION PRINCIPLE 55
3
.1 ARGUMENT SKETCH 55
3
.2 LEAMING IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THINH
I,
194S-1952
57
3.3 /11 SEARCH OF AN EMPIRICAL BASIS FOR THINK, 1948-19S2 65
3.4 IMITATION OF THINLI, IS THE EMPIRICAL BASIS FOR THINK2 70
3.5 HOW MECHANICAL CAN THINK, BE? 77
3
.6 CONCLUSION 79
4
THE CONTROVERSY THAT LED TO THE TURING TEST 81
4
.1 THE PURPOSE OF THE TURING TEST 81
4
.2 CORE EVENTS OF 1949, THE CRUCIAL YEAR
83
4
.3 THE CONTROVERSY IN ENGLAND, 1946-1950 84
4
.4 TURING'S EXCHANGES WITH DOUGLAS HARTRCC 85
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CONTENTS
4
.5 TURING'S EXCHANGES WITH MICHAEL POLANYI
4.6 TURING'S EXCHANGES WITH GEOFFREY JEFFERSON
4.7 CONCLUSION
8
8
92
97
5
THE TURING TEST IS A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 99
5
.1 THE TURING TEST DILEMMA 99
5
.2 ARGUMENT SKETCH 103
5
.3 TURING'S PRESENTATION OF HIS TEST 104
5
.4 TURING'S USE OF THE BASIC METHOD OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 108
5.5 TURING'S CRITICAL USE OF HIS TEST 115
5
.6 TURING'S HEURISTIC USE OF HIS TEST 119
5
.7 CONCLUSION 126
6
GALILEAN RESONANCES 129
6
.1 TURING'S RHETORIC OF A CRUCIAL EXPERIMENT 129
6
.2 ARGUMENT SKETCH 132
6
.3 TURING'S CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 132
6
.4 TURING'S
1950
PAPER, AN EXEGESIS 137
6
.5 GALILEO'S CONSTRUCTION OF IDEALIZED FALL IN A VOID 143
6
.6 TURING'S USE OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENT AND PROPAGANDA 150
6. 7 CONCLUSION 154
7
IRONY WITH A POINT 157
7
.1 INTELLIGENT MACHINERY, A HERETICAL THEORY 157
7
.2 ARGUMENT SKETCH 159
7
.3 THREE IMAGES OF TURING 160
7
.4 THE IRONIC TURING 168
7
.5 TURING'S PROMETHEAN IRREVERENCE . . . 171
7
.6 SATIRIC NOVELS AND TURING'S
CONCCTITTON
OF AN INTELLIGENT
MACHINE
7.7 TURING AS DR. FRANKENSTEIN?
7.8 TURING'S INTELLIGENT MACHINE UTOPIA
7.9 CONCLUSION
8
CONCLUSION
B
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