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The Turing Test

Mapping and Navigating the Debate

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The structure of the Turing Test debates has been diagrammed into seven large posters containing over 800 major claims, rebuttals, and counterrebuttals. This “mapping” of the debates is explained and discussed.

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Horn, R.E. (2009). The Turing Test. In: Epstein, R., Roberts, G., Beber, G. (eds) Parsing the Turing Test. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_5

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