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The Turing Test by Chris Beckett

The Turing Test is a book written by cult science fiction writer Chris Beckett, which had won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2009. The prize is awarded annually by the Edge Hill University for the best collection of short stories published in the UK or Ireland. The Turing Test by Chris Beckett is a collection of 14 short stories which were first published in Interzone in 2002. The book deals with the issues such as religion, robotics, virtual reality, space travel and alternative realities. But the main focus is on individuals rather than technology, and it deals with love and loneliness, authenticity and illusion, and what it really means to be human.
The title of the book is taken from the phrase 'The Turing Test' which refers to a proposal made by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way of dealing with the question of whether machines can think. The book is a rich work of fiction and can be re-read many times.

• The Colossus Computer
• Who did you talk with - human or machine?
• Can a Computer Pass the Turing Test?
• Where To Learn All About The Turing Test
• The Chinese Room Argument
• Subjecting Your Machine to the Turing Test
• CAPTCHA-Telling Humans and Computers Apart