Note: Turing Test is no longer the gold standard of AI.
What's the Turing Test?
In the Turing test (TT), an examiner sits behind a divider, and types questions to an unobserved entity. The entity (either a computer or a human) responds in text as if it was a human. If the examiner cannot distinguish a human response from a computer responding like a human, the computer passes the TT.
Given that, the nature of TT is more related to an emulator (or imitator) instead of a replicator of intelligence. This means that the important thing is the output, not the process in-between.
TT Limitations:
1. no clear understanding of human intelligence
2. not capture human - level intelligence
3. measure only conversational intelligence
Thus, it seems certain to wonder if the Test is getting obsolete or still reflects a valid measure of intelligence. It depends if you link intelligence to language. If so, this means that a machine capable of AGI must be conversational? Or if not, how can a machine prove their ”General Intelligence” without talking? These questions lead us to explore the possibilities of different tests for AGI.
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