

The two tests yield different results, and the first provides a more appropriate measure of intelligence.

Although the first, neglected, test uses a human’s linguistic performance in setting an empirical test of intelligence, it does not make behavioral similarity to that performance the criterion of intelligence.

I show here that the first test described in that much-discussed paper is in fact not equivalent to the second one, which has since become known as ‘the Turing Test’. 297 downloads 1058 Views 3MB Size Report. In ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Alan Turing actually proposed not one, but two, practical tests for deciding the question ‘Can a machine think?’ He presented them as equivalent. Parsing the Turing Test Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer Robert. SterrettApril1999TuringsTwoTestsForIntelligenceBJPS.docx Cognitive Science graduate and machine learning hobbiest. Microsoft Word (Turing's Two Tests for Intelligence - April '99 Draft)
