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Spear of Lugh's avatar

I think there is a line of critics that can be added. Turing focused on transmissible knowledge. Typically qualia, this inner feeling attached to sensations (like pain) or perceptions (like the blue of the sky) or more abstract (like feeling that we are right). Those things are not really transmissible. The reader understand what they mean because he experienced those qualia first hand. I think that it has to do with our links to the outside world. Meaning : I can have a model of the world in my mind but I also interact directly with the world. This last part is lacking for machines.

Can it be formalized (I doubt) or measured (much more easy to imagine to test using robots) ? How much is it linked with what we call intelligence ? are open questions...

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Frank Neubüser's avatar

The weakness of the Turing test is its behavioristic approach. I presume that was done to provide a basis for empirical assessment.

A non-behavioristic Turing test would look like this:

"A machine is intelligent if you put it out on a lonely island - without any means - and it comes up with a civilization after a few generations."

Humans have done it.

"The proof is in the pudding."

P. S. Intentionally left a few terms unclear, like "a few generations".

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