Does the Turing Test Demonstrate Intelligence or Not?

Book One

Volume

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 21

Senior Member Papers

The Turing Test has served as a defining inspiration throughout the early history of artificial intelligence research. Its centrality arises in part because verbal behavior indistinguishable from that of humans seems like an incontrovertible criterion for intelligence, a "philosophical conversation stopper" as Dennett says. On the other hand, from the moment Turing's seminal