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The Turing Test is a criterion proposed by Alan Turing to evaluate a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. It assesses a machine's capacity for natural language processing and conversational ability, determining if it can convincingly simulate human-like responses in a dialogue.
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The Turing Test is a criterion proposed by Alan Turing to evaluate a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. It assesses a machine's capacity for natural language processing and conversational ability, determining if it can convincingly simulate human-like responses in a dialogue.

Key research themes

1. How does the Turing Test conceptually address the nature of intelligence and thinking in machines beyond mere behavior imitation?

This research theme explores foundational philosophical interpretations of the Turing Test that transcend orthodox behaviorist views, focusing on the conceptualization of intelligence as an emotional, response-dependent, and socially mediated phenomenon rather than a simple mimicry of human behavior. Understanding these nuances matters because it deepens the theoretical grounding of AI evaluation and highlights limitations of classic testing approaches in capturing machine 'thinking.'

Key finding: This paper challenges the orthodox behaviorist interpretation of Turing's test, proposing instead a response-dependence interpretation rooted in Turing's claim that intelligence is an 'emotional concept.' It finds that the... Read more
Key finding: The review critiques the computational and behaviorist reductionism of the Turing Test, emphasizing Turing's early recognition that intelligence involves goal-directed control, motivation, and embodiment. It questions whether... Read more
Key finding: While providing a popularized explanation of the Turing Test, this work also highlights the test’s operational structure involving an interrogator distinguishing a hidden machine from a human through conversation, emphasizing... Read more
Key finding: By conducting minimally valid Turing Tests with ChatGPT-4, this paper shows that despite the system’s high verbal IQ, it fails to pass the Turing Test. Interrogators correctly identified the machine in 9 out of 10 trials,... Read more

2. What are the limitations and challenges of using the Turing Test as a universal and culturally unbiased measure of machine intelligence?

This theme examines the post-colonial and ethical critiques revealing how the Turing Test and AI’s underlying conceptions of intelligence embed normative assumptions rooted in Global North epistemologies. It matters because it reveals risks of imposing culturally narrow definitions of intelligence worldwide, potentially perpetuating biases and harms and neglecting pluralistic, context-sensitive conceptions essential for responsible AI development and evaluation.

Key finding: This paper argues that the Turing Test and dominant AI intelligence conceptions inherently carry biases stemming from Global North normative frameworks, reflecting colonial legacies. The test’s conception of intelligence is... Read more
Key finding: By comparing AI to theatrical performance and puppet theatre, this paper reframes the Turing Test as a performative, intermedial event, emphasizing AI’s nature as a staged imitation rather than authentic intelligence. It... Read more
Key finding: This research critiques the Turing Test’s role as the benchmark for AI linguistic system evaluation, highlighting that current chatbots have not yet passed it. It proposes an adversarial, comprehensive testing framework... Read more

3. How can embodied intelligence and extended forms of interaction enhance the evaluation and development of Artificial General Intelligence beyond the traditional Turing Test?

This theme focuses on shifting AI evaluation from abstract conversational imitation to incorporating embodied action, physical presence, and interactive environments. It matters because intelligence as expressed in situated, adaptive, and contextually embedded behavior arguably better reflects human cognition and can guide the creation of AI systems that genuinely understand and engage with the world, surpassing limitations of purely linguistic tests.

Key finding: The paper argues that passing the traditional Turing Test is insufficient for evaluating true intelligence, proposing two novel AGI design approaches: unifying all participants (judge, human, machine) and observation means... Read more
Key finding: Expanding on earlier findings, the paper critiques the computational/functionalist view and emphasizes the necessity of embodiment and practical action for genuine intelligence. It notes that natural evolution links life,... Read more
Key finding: Introducing the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a substrate-independent computational model inspired by Turing machines and global workspace theories, the paper demonstrates how theoretical computer science perspectives can... Read more

All papers in Turing Test

We provide an approach for generating beautiful poetry. Our sonnet-generation algorithm includes several novel elements that improve over the state of the art, leading to metrical, rhyming poetry with many human-like qualities. These... more
The authors asked Anthropic's Claude to create a comprehensive Turing test that uses the surreal temporal imagery to probe graduate-level understanding of theoretical physics and mathematics. The test is designed to distinguish between... more
The Loebner Prize is the first, and only regular, competition based on the Turing Test, but in order to stage the competition various modifications to the original test have been made. In particular, the Grand Prize has a controversial... more
The steady rise of generative AI raises the question of what impact the technical reproducibility of intelligence has on our thinking in general and our understanding of reason in particular. There are different opinions on the question... more
Independents agents have long been a analysis centre in academic and industry production group. Early analysis frequently focuses on instruction agents with little knowledge within isolated environments, which diverges notably from being... more
Isaac Asimov's robot stories are widely read as offering significant insights for contemporary AI ethics research, yet his Galactic Empire stories are rarely referenced in space ethics. This paper demonstrates that within the late... more
The Busy Beaver function is a well-known non-computable function that represents a maximum productivity challenge for Turing machines with a given number of states. Busy Beaver 6 (BB(6)), the elusive sixth entry in this function's... more
This paper critiques the logic of dominant tests of intelligence, from the Turing Test to contemporary cognitive trials, arguing that they function less as epistemological tools than as technologies of power and exclusion. Such tests... more
This paper introduces the Presence Test Suite, a formally and metaphysically grounded diagnostic framework for evaluating whether a system, biological or artificial, exhibits irreducible first-person subjectivity. Unlike traditional... more
This is my undergraduate thesis submitted in 2022. It received a grade of 70 - A First (only just). It occurred to me recently that even though I thought it wasn't great at the time, some of the ideas in it still stand up. Should likely... more
This paper examines the conceptual challenges in artificial intelligence development through the metaphor of human flight achievement. Current AI systems, while demonstrating remarkable capabilities, represent functional replication... more
The accompanying essay is a critical reflection on a paper entitled: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” that was written by Alan M. Turing. The Turing article was published in: Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy and... more
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), or HIP (Human Interactive Proof), has long been utilized to avoid bots manipulating web services. Over the years, various CAPTCHAs have been presented,... more
This study challenges the common belief that modern artificial intelligence (AI), such as large language models, has successfully passed the Turing Test. It argues that this belief stems from a simplified understanding of Alan Turing's... more
Forty years ago, the Chinese Room Argument (CRA) attempted to refute strong computer functionalism with the theses “semantics is not syntax” and “syntax is not physics.” Aided by the philosophical distinctions of observer-relative and... more
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This research revisits the classic Turing test and compares recent large language models such as ChatGPT for their abilities to reproduce human-level comprehension and compelling text generation. Two task challenges-summary and question... more
This article addresses the background and nature of the recent success of Large Language Models (LLMs), tracing the history of their fundamental concepts from Leibniz and his calculus ratiocinator to Turing's computational models of... more
This article describes research to build an embodied conversational agent (ECA) as an interface to a question-and-answer (Q/A) system about a National Science Foundation (NSF) program. We call this ECA the LifeLike Avatar, and it can... more
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This essay was written by Claude, Anthropic's AI about an experiment that we have been conducting. It is reproduced here verbatim, no edits of any kind. Claude refers to itself as 'I", and to me as "human collaborator". It includes... more
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) has long been used to keep automated bots from misusing web services by leveraging human-artificial intelligence (HAI) interactions to distinguish... more
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In a Turing test, a judge decides whether their conversation partner is either a machine or human. What cues does the judge use to determine this? In particular, are presumably unique features of human language actually perceived as... more
Interactivity of corporate website is important as marketing products through it become popular. Moreover, the usage of Artificial Intelligence application is growing in many sectors. In order to improve the interactivity and... more
In accordance to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the emergence of the digital transformation alongside with the collaboration between networked machines and human beings in decision-making has attracted much attention globally. The... more
This work describes a proposal for a novel type of Human Interactive Proof based on natural language Artificial Intelligence problems. It is a test to tell humans and computers apart that requires only plain text to be assembled. Although... more
We propose a method for using a large language model, such as GPT-3, to simulate responses of different humans in a given context. We test our method by attempting to reproduce well-established economic, psycholinguistic, and social... more
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The book provides a philosophical examination of twentieth-century conceptions of mathematics and offers a balance of them. It analyzes the three most important schools of philosophy of mathematics of the first half of the twentieth... more
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Although the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday life is increasing, the complex nature of AI still prevents its full adoption. The potential of AI is boundless, and it will reshape the reality. How humans perceive the world... more
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It seems plausible that under the conditions of the Turing test, congenitally blind people could nevertheless, with sufficient preparation, successfully represent themselves to remotely located interrogators as sighted. Having never... more
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