The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion
Harnad, Stevan (1992) The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion. SIGART Bulletin, 3, (4), 9-10.
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Description/Abstract
It is important to understand that the Turing Test (TT) is not, nor was it intended to be, a trick; how well one can fool someone is not a measure of scientific progress. The TT is an empirical criterion: It sets AI's empirical goal to be to generate human-scale performance capacity. This goal will be met when the candidate's performance is totally indistinguishable from a human's. Until then, the TT simply represents what it is that AI must endeavor eventually to accomplish scientifically.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | [Appears preceded by an Editorial on the Turing Test by Lewis Johnson, pp. 7 - 9, and followed by another commentary by Stuart Shapiro, p. 10] |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 253373 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2000 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 10:36 |
| Contributors: | Harnad, Stevan (Author) |
| Date: | October 1992 |
| Additional Information: | [Appears preceded by an Editorial on the Turing Test by Lewis Johnson, pp. 7 - 9, and followed by another commentary by Stuart Shapiro, p. 10] |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/253373 |
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