The Turing Test is not a trick: Turing indistinguishability is a scientific criterion

  • Authors:
  • Stevan Harnad

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1992

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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.