creators_name: Saygin, Ayse Pinar
creators_name: Cicekli, Ilyas
creators_name: Akman, Varol
editors_name: Moor, James H.
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-11-26
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:50
metadata_visibility: show
title: Turing Test: 50 Years Later
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: chatbots, Chinese Room, consciousness, Imitation Game, intelligence, Loebner Contest, philosophy of mind, Turing Test
abstract: The Turing Test is one of the most disputed topics in artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. This paper is a review of the past 50 years of the Turing Test. Philosophical debates, practical developments and repercussions in related disciplines are all covered. We discuss Turing's ideas in detail and present the important comments that have been made on them. Within this context, behaviorism, conscioussness, the `other minds' problem, and similar topics in philosophy of mind are discussed. We also cover the sociological and psychological aspects of the Turing Test. Finally, we look at the current situation and analyze programs that have been developed with the aim of passing the Turing Test. We conclude that the Turing Test has been, and will continue to be, an influential and controversial topic.
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Minds and Machines
volume: 10
number: 4
publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
pagerange: 463-518
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Saygin, Ayse Pinar and Cicekli, Ilyas and Akman, Varol  (2000) Turing Test: 50 Years Later.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1925/2/tt50.ps