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Full Idea
The Turing test is too narrow, because it is designed to fool a human interrogator, but there could be creatures which are intelligent but still fail the test.
Gist of Idea
The Turing Test is too specifically human in its requirements
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p. 97)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.97
A Reaction
I think the key test for intelligence would be a capacity for metathought. 'What do you think of the idea that x?' Their thoughts about x might be utterly stupid, of course. How do you measure 'stupid'?
| 3614 | A machine could speak in response to physical stimulus, but not hold a conversation [Descartes] |
| 5321 | In 50 years computers will successfully imitate humans with a 70% success rate [Turing] |
| 3382 | A machine with a mind might still fail the Turing Test [Kim] |
| 3383 | The Turing Test is too specifically human in its requirements [Kim] |
| 3178 | A fast machine could pass all behavioural tests with a vast lookup table [Block, by Rey] |
| 6656 | The Turing test is too behaviourist, and too verbal in its methods [Lowe] |