In Defense of the Turing Test and its Legacy

2025/11/24 by Gonçalves, Bernardo
#Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #I.2.0 #J.4 #K.4

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.20699

Abstract

Considering that Turing's original test was co-opted by Weizenbaum and that six of the most common criticisms of the Turing test are unfair to both Turing's argument and the historical development of AI.

Citations

• The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
• The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
• ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine
• I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE

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