Ariella Popple (1996) The Turing Test as a Scientific Experiment . Psycoloquy: 7(15) Turing Test (2)
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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.

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