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From: dave@tygra.Michigan.COM (David Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: If it does not pass TT it is not intelligent????
Keywords: TT, intelligence
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.111622.5491@tygra.Michigan.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 11:16:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.064232.2536@panix.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun17.064232.2536@panix.uucp> yanek@panix.uucp (Yanek Martinson) writes:
>Performance of a system on TT shows how human that is, but not neccessarily
>how intelligent. For example if some martians arrive and somehow learn
>our language, they most likely can not pass the TT since they would be
>most likely very different from humans and possible to distinguish. Would
>that mean they are less intelligent? Or that they are not intelligent at all?
>Is there any other, more objective test that tests for intelligence, not
>for similarity to human beings?

The Turing Test does not test for intelligence.  At a literal level it tests
for a specific ability, the ability to mimic human answers to questions,
which we may hope requires at least some kind of 'intelligence'.

But more importantly, it points out that physical form is not really an
indicator of intelligence.  Do you think that I am intelligent?  It's
probably safe to assume that you've never seen me.  You don't know if I'm
short, or tall, or a program running on a Cray Y-MP.  The real point of
the Turing Test is to demonstrate that we really consider behaviour more
than form when judging intelligence.  And that we should.

David R. Conrad
dave@michigan.com
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