creators_name: Edmonds, B.
type: preprint
datestamp: 2000-01-28
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test)
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: Turing test, artificial intelligence, constructability, evolution, society, culture, computability, symbol grounding, philosophy, socially situated intelligence, social role, Turing, logic, development
abstract: 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.
date: 1999-08
date_type: published
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Edmonds, B.  (1999) The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test).  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/397/3/consai.pdf