Paper Analysis

You are currently browsing the archive for the Paper Analysis category.

Turing believed in psychics! (And other notes on “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”)

October 5, 2011 in Paper Analysis | 1 comment

Alan Turing believed psychic mind-readers could undermine the Turing Test!  Yes, you read that right; and no, I’m not joking.  He spends about a page of “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (CMI) discussing this problem.  CMI is the paper that first introduced the Turing Test; it was published in the journal Mind in 1950.

Read the rest of this entry »