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@misc{cogprints1584, volume = {3}, number = {4}, title = {The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion}, author = {Stevan Harnad}, year = {1992}, pages = {9--10}, journal = {SIGART Bulletin}, keywords = {computation, cognition, Turing Test, symbol grounding, consciousness, artificial intelligence, other minds problem, robotics}, url = {http://cogprints.org/1584/}, abstract = {It is important to understand that the Turing Test (TT) is not, nor was it intended to be, a trick; how well one can fool someone is not a measure of scientific progress. The TT is an empirical criterion: It sets AI's empirical goal to be to generate human-scale performance capacity. This goal will be met when the candidate's performance is totally indistinguishable from a human's. Until then, the TT simply represents what it is that AI must endeavor eventually to accomplish scientifically. } }