INFORMATION ON A.I., THE TURING TEST, AND THE CHINESE-ROOM ARGUMENT

(For students in CSE 111: You should also read Biermann, Ch. 15.)

1. Artificial IQ Test

2. Information on the Turing Test and its descendents:

   • Turing, Alan M. (1950), "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind 59: 433-460; reprinted in Alan Ross Anderson (ed.), Minds and Machines (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964): 4-30, and in Allan Collins & Edward E. Smith (eds.), Readings in Cognitive Science (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1988): 6-19.

   • The Turing Test Page (lots of information on the Turing Test)

     • The Alan Turing Home Page (a good guide to info on Turing in general)

   • The Turing Game (a research project at Georgia Tech)

   • The Loebner Prize Home Page (devoted to a modern version of the Turing Test)

3. The Chinese-Room Argument (an alleged counterexample to the Turing Test)

4. Information on AI Research at UB:

   • The SNePS Research Group homepage (SNePS is a semantic-network knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting system)

   • CEDAR homepage (CEDAR is the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition)

   • UB Center for Cognitive Science (Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of cognition and the mind; at UB, this involves the Departments of Anthropology, Biophysics, Communicative Disorders, Computer Science and Engineering, English, Geography, Learning and Instruction, School of Information and Library Studies, Linguistics, Neurology, Philosophy, Physiology, and Psychology.)