1992/10/01 by Stevan Harnad · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Language and cultural evolution #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #Turing test #Turing #Computer science #Test (biology) #Measure (data warehouse) #Empirical research #Artificial intelligence #Epistemology #Programming language #Data mining #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1145/141420.141422
openalex publication_date 1992/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/04
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.