Alan Turing ' s brilliant essay

In 1950, Alan Turing wrote < a href=http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html > " Computing Machinery and Intelligence. " < /a > This one short paper, exploring what came to be called the Turing test, < a href=http://www.macrovu.com/CCTGeneralInfo.html > continues to influence research and thinking < /a > across multiple fields. < br / > < br / > Tyler Cowen and I have co-authored a new paper asking two questions. < a href=http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/faculty%20pages/Tyler/turingfinal.pdf > What does the Turing test really mean? And how many human beings (including Turing) could pass? < /a > Our premise is that some aspects of Turing ' s paper have not received sufficient attention: < br / > < br / > < blockquote > Turing ’s paper is rich and multi-faceted and we are not seeking to overturn all of the extant interpretations. We do wish to suggest that a potent and indeed subversive perspective in the paper has been underemphasized. Some of the message of Turing’s paper is encouraging us to take a broader perspect ive on intelligence and some of his points are < em > ethical < /em > in nature. Turing ’s paper is about the possibility of unusual forms of intelligence, our inability to recognize those intelligences, and the limitations of indistinguishability as a standard for defining intelligence. “Inability to imitate does not rule out intelligence” is an alternative way of reading many p arts of his argument. Turing was issuing the warning tha...

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