Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is Alan Turing’s landmark 1950 paper that introduced the Turing Test and fundamentally shaped the philosophical and technical foundations of artificial intelligence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf philosophical essay
scientific paper
addressesQuestion Can machines think?
appearedInIssue Mind, Volume 59, Issue 236
arguesAgainst biological chauvinism about intelligence
author Alan Turing
citedBy numerous AI research papers
works in philosophy of mind
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
criticizes argument from consciousness
various objections to machine intelligence
discusses digital computers
learning machines
limitations of formal systems
field artificial intelligence
computer science
philosophy of mind
hasLegacy central text in debates on machine consciousness
standard reference for the Turing test
hasSection Critique of the New Problem
Digital Computers
Learning Machines
The Imitation Game
influenced AI ethics debates
cognitive science
development of artificial intelligence
philosophy of mind
introducedConcept Turing test
imitation game
language English
length approximately 28 pages
mainTopic artificial intelligence
machine intelligence
machine thinking
philosophical foundations of AI
pageRange 433–460
proposes behavioral criterion for intelligence
proposesTestFor machine intelligence
publicationYear 1950
publishedIn Mind
publisher Oxford University Press
relatedTo Church–Turing thesis
philosophy of artificial intelligence
status foundational text in AI
landmark paper in artificial intelligence

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Turing test describedIn Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Alan Turing notableWork Computing Machinery and Intelligence