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TESTING THE TURING TEST — DO MEN PASS IT?

RUTH ADAM

Cognitive Science Program, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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URI HERSHBERG

Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Jerusalem, Israel

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YAACOV SCHUL

Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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SORIN SOLOMON

Racah Institute for Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183104006522Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We are fascinated by the idea of giving life to the inanimate. The fields of Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence (AI) attempt to use a scientific approach to pursue this desire. The first steps on this approach hark back to Turing and his suggestion of an imitation game as an alternative answer to the question "can machines think?".¹ To test his hypothesis, Turing formulated the Turing test¹ to detect human behavior in computers. But how do humans pass such a test? What would you say if you would learn that they do not pass it well? What would it mean for our understanding of human behavior? What would it mean for our design of tests of the success of artificial life? We report below an experiment in which men consistently failed the Turing test.

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