Revisiting the Turing Test

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Revisiting the Turing Test

• We wont do it in class, but try it some time

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Revisiting the Turing Test

• The Theological Objection
• The "Heads in the Sand" Objection
• The Mathematical Objection
• The Argument from Consciousness
• Arguments from Various Disabilities
• Lady Lovelace's Objection
• Argument from Continuity of Nervous System
• The Argument from Informality of Behavior
• The Argument from Extrasensory Perception.

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Your opinions ?

• Which of the objections that Turing anticipates
  against his parlor game is the weakest?
• Which of the objections that Turing anticipates
  against his parlor game is the strongest?

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Is the Turing Test a Good One?

• What kinds of behavior are intelligent?
• How well does the Turing Test evaluate these
  behaviors?
• Does the Turing Test introduce any problems of
  its own?

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Is the Turing Test a Good One?

• What kinds of behavior are intelligent?
• Turing's game makes some assumptions about what
  counts as intelligent.
• What about abilities such as leadership or
  collaboration?

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Is the Turing Test a Good One?

• How well does the Turing Test evaluate these
  behaviors?
• It tests the judge (perhaps more than) the
  machine?
• Special Knowledge
• Willingness to believe (ELIZA)

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Is the Turing Test a Good One?

• Does the Turing Test introduce any problems of
  its own?
• Some folks claim that Turing's game emphasizes a
  behavior that we do not consider essential to
  intelligence, such as ones that do no more than
  fool the interrogator. The Turing Test promotes
  the development of artificial con artists, not
  artificial intelligences
• Consider a human like calculator
• Stories from the Loebner Prize.
• The boundaries of perceived human/machine
  capabilities constantly change.

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