Ariella Popple (1996) The Turing Test as a Scientific Experiment
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Psycoloquy 7(15): The Turing Test as a Scientific Experiment
THE TURING TEST AS A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT
Commentary on Watt on Turing-Test
Ariella Popple
Psychology Department
Durham University
Durham DH1 3LE England
A.V.Popple@dur.ac.uk
Abstract
Watt (1996) suggests that the conventional Turing Test for
artificial intelligence be replaced with an Inverted Test which
requires the machine to mimic human naive psychology, that faculty
which predisposes us to anthropomorphism and enables us to ascribe
intelligence to others. This suggestion would be valid if the test
were viewed as a single court case, but not when it is seen as a
replicable experiment.
Keywords
False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology,
the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.
References
- Watt, S. (1996) Naive Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test. PSYCOLOQUY 7(14) turing-test.1.watt