Can Computers Think?
The History and Status of the Debate
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Can the Turing Test Determine
Whether Computers Can Think?
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Issue Areas
Is failing
the test decisive?
Is passing
the test decisive?
If a
simulated intelligence passes, is it intelligent?
Have
any machines passed the test?
Is the
test, behaviorally or operationally construed, a legitimate intelligence
test?
Is the
test, as a source of inductive evidence, a legitimate intelligence
test?
Is the
neo-Turing test a legitimate intelligence test?
Does the
imitation game determine whether computers can think?
Can the
Loebner Prize stimulate the study of intelligence?
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Sidebars
Players in the Turing test
Defined Terms
autonomy
behavioral capacity
behavioral disposition
behaviorism
control
operationalism
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