By not knowing who or what is on the other end, such biases and raising-of-the-bar is eliminated in the Turing-Test.For example, knowing that we are dealing with a machine will most likely lead us to raise the bar for intelligence: – What, it can’t write a sonnet? Aha! I knew it! It’s not intelligent!.The mere knowledge that we are dealing with a machine will bias our judgment as to whether that machine can think or not, as we may bring certain preconceptions about machines to the table.That is, if Turing is trying to determine machine intelligence purely based on the interactions the interrogator is having with the computer’s responses to certain questions, why not have the interrogator simply interact with a machine, see what it is or is not able to do, and determine whether or not the machine is intelligent based on those interactions? So why not: The Super-Simplified Turing Test!!.

But if we’re after a certain behavioral repertoire, why does the Turing Test have such a complicated set-up? Why did Turing ‘pit’ a machine against a human in some kind of ‘imitation game’?.If a computer can play the game just as well as a human, then the computer is said to ‘pass’ the ‘test’, and should be declared intelligent.Today the Imitation Game is usually referred to as the Turing Test.Arguments for the possibility of thinking machines (or intelligent computers) often take the following form: – An entity is intelligent if it displays certain behavioral repertoires X – Computers can be programmed to display those behavioral repertoires X – Therefore, computers can be intelligent The Imitation Game Interrogator Machine Human “I believe that in about fifty years’ time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after 5 minutes of questioning” -Alan Turing (1950) The Turing Test.Download The Turing Test - Lecture Notes | COGS 2120 and more Computer Science Study notes in PDF only on Docsity!The Turing Test Introduction to Cognitive Science Can Machines Think? The Behavioral Repertoire Argument

Download free passing the turing test