TESTING THE TURING TEST — DO MEN PASS IT?

Ruth Adam, Uri Hershberg (), Yaacov Schul and Sorin Solomon
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Ruth Adam: Cognitive Science Program, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Uri Hershberg: Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Jerusalem, Israel
Yaacov Schul: Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Sorin Solomon: Racah Institute for Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2004, vol. 15, issue 08, 1041-1047

Abstract: We are fascinated by the idea of giving life to the inanimate. The fields of Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence (AI) attempt to use a scientific approach to pursue this desire. The first steps on this approach hark back to Turing and his suggestion of an imitation game as an alternative answer to the question "can machines think?".1To test his hypothesis, Turing formulated the Turing test1to detect human behavior in computers. But how do humans pass such a test? What would you say if you would learn that they do not pass it well? What would it mean for our understanding of human behavior? What would it mean for our design of tests of the success of artificial life? We report below an experiment in which men consistently failed the Turing test.

Keywords: Turing test; artificial intelligence; artificial life; sentience; imitation; deception; thinking machines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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