The Truly Total Turing Test

  • Authors:
  • Paul Schweizer

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Minds and Machines
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The paper examines the nature of the behavioral evidence underlyingattributions of intelligence in the case of human beings, and how this mightbe extended to other kinds of cognitive system, in the spirit of theoriginal Turing Test (TT). I consider Harnad‘s Total Turing Test(TTT), which involves successful performance of both linguistic androbotic behavior, and which is often thought to incorporate the very samerange of empirical data that is available in the human case. However, Iargue that the TTT is still too weak, because it only tests thecapabilities of particular tokens within a preexisting context ofintelligent behavior. What is needed is a test of the cognitivetype, as manifested through a number of exemplary tokens, in orderto confirm that the cognitive type is able to produce the context ofintelligent behavior presupposed by tests such as the TT and TTT.