The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence

The first section of the book contains writing by philosophical precursors, including Descartes, who first proposed the idea of indistinguishability tests. The second section contains all of Turing’s writings on the Turing Test, including not only the Mind paper, but also less familiar ephemeral material. The final section opens with responses to Turing’s paper published in Mind soon after the paper first appeared. The bulk of this section, however, consists of papers from a broad spectrum of scholars in the fields that directly address the issue of the Turing Test as a test of intelligence.