Some Implications of a Sample of Practical Turing Tests

  • Authors:
  • Kevin Warwick;Huma Shah;James Moor

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, UK RG6 6AY;School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, UK RG6 6AY;Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA 03755

  • Venue:
  • Minds and Machines
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A series of imitation games involving 3-participant (simultaneous comparison of two hidden entities) and 2-participant (direct interrogation of a hidden entity) were conducted at Bletchley Park on the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth: 23 June 2012. From the ongoing analysis of over 150 games involving (expert and non-expert, males and females, adults and child) judges, machines and hidden humans (foils for the machines), we present six particular conversations that took place between human judges and a hidden entity that produced unexpected results. From this sample we focus on features of Turing's machine intelligence test that the mathematician/code breaker did not consider in his examination for machine thinking: the subjective nature of attributing intelligence to another mind.