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--- 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. altloc: - http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.turing.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: 'Editorial on the Turing Test by Lewis Johnson (1992) SIGART Bulletin 3(4): 7 - 9' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1992 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-06-18 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/15/84 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1584 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1584/1/harnad92.turing.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'computation, cognition, Turing Test, symbol grounding, consciousness, artificial intelligence, other minds problem, robotics' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:41 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 4 pagerange: 9-10 pubdom: FALSE publication: SIGART Bulletin publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Harnad, S. (ed.) (1987) Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press. Harnad, S. (1989) Minds, Machines and Searle. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence 1: 5-25. Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D 42: 335-346. Harnad, S. (1991) Other bodies, Other minds: A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem. Minds and Machines 1: 43-54. Harnad, S., Hanson, S.J. & Lubin, J. (1991) Categorical Perception and the Evolution of Supervised Learning in Neural Nets. In: Working Papers of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology (DW Powers & L Reeker, Eds.) pp. 65-74. Presented at Symposium on Symbol Grounding: Problems and Practice, Stanford University, March 1991; also reprinted as Document D91-09, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH Kaiserslautern FRG. Harnad, S. (1992) Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition. In: A. Clarke and R. Lutz (Eds) Connectionism in Context Springer Verlag. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:38:49 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion' type: journalp userid: 63 volume: 3