Robert M. French (1996) The Inverted Turing Test: a Simple
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Psycoloquy 7(39): The Inverted Turing Test: a Simple
THE INVERTED TURING TEST: A SIMPLE
(MINDLESS) PROGRAM THAT COULD PASS IT
Commentary on Watt on Turing-Test
Robert M. French
Department of Psychology (B32)
University of Liege
Liege, Belgium
french@segi.ulg.ac.be
Abstract
This commentary attempts to show that Watt's (1996)
inverted Turing Test could be simulated by a standard Turing Test;
indeed, a very simple program with no intelligence whatsoever could
be written that would pass the inverted Turing Test. For this
reason, the inverted Turing Test must be rejected.
Keywords
False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology,
the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.
References
- French, R.M., (1995) Refocusing the Debate on the Turing Test. Behavior and Philosophy. 23(1), 61-62.
- French, R.M. (1990) Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test. Mind, 99(393), 53-65.
- Turing, A. (1950) Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind. 59(236), 433-60.
- Turing, A. (1936) On computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungs Problem. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 42, 230-265.
- Watt, S. (1996) Naive-Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test. PSYCOLOQUY 7(14) turing-test.1.watt.