拍品 931
  • 931

TURING, A. COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE, EDINBURGH, 1950; AND PINSKY'S COMMENTARY

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描述

  • "Computing machinery and intelligence" [in:] Mind, vol. 59, no. 236, pp.433-460. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, October 1950
8vo (214 x 140mm.), original grey wrappers, a few minor tears to edges of wrappers and at head and base of spine, minor browning [together with:] Pinsky, Leonard. "Do machines think about machines thinking?" [in:] Mind, vol. 60, no. 239, July 1951, pp.397-398. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1951, original wrappers, wrappers worn, lower wrapper nearly detached8vo (2)

來源

bought from Interlibrum, Vaduz, 1987

出版

Turing: Tomash & Williams T60; Origins of Cyberspace 936; Pinsky: Tomash & Williams P85

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拍品資料及來源

THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE TURING TEST: "THE IMITATION GAME". In Turing's paper, which remains the benchmark in all subsequent questions of Artificial Intelligence as to whether a machine or computer can think, the computer scientist proposes the "Imitation Game", in which a human judge engaged in conversation must assess whether he is speaking with a human or instead only a machine designed to imitate a human. It is the most lucid and far-reaching expression of Turing's philosophy, summarising his view that the operation of the brain could (and indeed would) be captured by a machine and hence by a computer.

Pinsky's paper is a commentary on Turing's. Pinsky, noting that some problems involve the use of “metaphysical” sentences, could not resist humorously suggesting that if a computer were given a copy of Turing’s paper, it might be forced to use “metamechanical” statements to avoid its own mental breakdown.