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%A Stevan Harnad
%J SIGART Bulletin
%T The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion
%X 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.
%N 4
%K computation, cognition, Turing Test, symbol grounding, consciousness, artificial intelligence, other minds problem, robotics
%P 9-10
%V 3
%D 1992
%L cogprints1584