Selmer Bringsjord (1996) The Inverted Turing Test is Provably Redundant
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Psycoloquy 7(29): The Inverted Turing Test is Provably Redundant
THE INVERTED TURING TEST IS PROVABLY REDUNDANT
Reply to Watt on Turing-Test
Selmer Bringsjord
Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180 (USA)
http://www.rpi.edu/~brings
selmer@rpi.edu
Abstract
Watt's (1996) Inverted Turing Test (ITT) is probably
redundant: it is easily shown to be entailed by the original
Turing Test (TT). And, contra Watt, that which suggests ITT --
naive psychology -- is something already withering in many humans
(e.g., Bringsjord). Indeed, before long, I predict this property
will be moribund across the planet.
Keywords
False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology,
the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.
References
- Bringsjord, S. (1995) Could, How Could We Tell If, and Why Should Androids Have Inner Lives. Chapter in the Android Epistemology, MIT Press, pp. 93-122. Ken Ford, Clark Glymour & Pat Hayes, editors.
- Bringsjord, S. (1994) Precis of: What Robots Can and Can't Be PSYCOLOQUY 5(59) robot-consciousness.1.bringsjord.
- Bringsjord, S. (1992) What Robots Can and Can't Be. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
- Dennett, D. C. (1985) Can machines think? In: How we know, ed. M. Shafto, Harper and Row.
- Harnad, S. (1991) Other bodies, Other minds: A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem. Minds and Machines 1: 43-54.
- Harnad, S, (1995) Does the Mind Piggy-Back on Robotic and Symbolic Capacity? In: H. Morowitz (ed.) "The Mind, the Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems." Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Volume XXII. P. 204-220.
- Watt, S. (1996) Naive Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test PSYCOLOQUY 7(14) turing-test.1.watt.