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TY - GEN ID - cogprints1584 UR - http://cogprints.org/1584/ A1 - Harnad, Stevan Y1 - 1992/// N2 - 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. KW - computation KW - cognition KW - Turing Test KW - symbol grounding KW - consciousness KW - artificial intelligence KW - other minds problem KW - robotics TI - The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion SP - 9 AV - public EP - 10 ER -