TY - GEN ID - cogprints397 UR - http://cogprints.org/397/ A1 - Edmonds, B. TI - The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test) Y1 - 1999/08// N2 - The Turing Test, as originally specified, centres on the ability to perform a social role. The TT can seen as a test of an ability to enter into normal human social dynamics. In this light it seems unlikely that such an entity can be wholly designed in an `off-line' mode, but rather a considerable period of training in situ would be required. The argument that since we can pass the TT and our cognitive processes might be implemented as a TM that, in theory, an TM that could pass the TT could be built is attacked on the grounds that not all TMs are constructable in a planned way. This observation points towards the importance of developmental processes that include random elements (e.g. evolution), but in these cases it becomes problematic to call the result artificial. AV - public KW - Turing test KW - artificial intelligence KW - constructability KW - evolution KW - society KW - culture KW - computability KW - symbol grounding KW - philosophy KW - socially situated intelligence KW - social role KW - Turing KW - logic KW - development ER -