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Introduction

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1. History

1.1 Philosophical background

1.2 Cultural background

1.3 Alan Turing and the imitation game

1.4 The Chinese room

John Searle's 1980 paper Minds, Brains, and Programs proposed the "Chinese room" thought experiment and argued that the Turing test could not be used to determine if a machine could think.
The concept "thinking" is clearly a human condition. What makes sense if a program can be intelligent i.e more intelligent than a human being.
Searle noted that software (such as ELIZA) could pass the Turing test simply by manipulating symbols of which they had no understanding. Without understanding, they could not be described as "thinking" in the same sense people did. Therefore, Searle concluded, the Turing test could not prove that machines could think.[34] Much like the Turing test itself, Searle's argument has been both widely criticised[35] and endorsed.[36]
Arguments such as Searle's and others working on the philosophy of mind sparked off a more intense debate about the nature of intelligence, the possibility of machines with a conscious mind and the value of the Turing test that continued through the 1980s and 1990s.[37]
The concept "concious" is also strictly human. It is physical linked to the brain.

1.5 Loebner Prize

1.6 CAPTCHA

2. Attempts

2.1 Large language models

2.2 Google LaMDA

2.3 ChatGPT

2.4 Versions

3. Interpretations

3.1 Should the interrogator know about the computer?

4. Strengths

4.1 Tractability and simplicity

4.2 Breadth of subject matter

4.3 Emphasis on emotional and aesthetic intelligence

5. Weaknesses

5.1 Naïveté of interrogators

5.2 Human intelligence vs. intelligence in general

5.3 Consciousness vs. the simulation of consciousness

5.4 Impracticality and irrelevance: the Turing test and AI research

5.5 The language-centric objection

5.6 Silence

5.7 The Turing Trap

6. Variations

6.1 Reverse Turing test and CAPTCHA

6.2 Distinguishing accurate use of language from actual understanding

6.3 Subject matter expert Turing test

6.4 "Low-level" cognition test

6.5 Total Turing test

6.6 Electronic health records

6.7 Minimum intelligent signal test

6.8 Hutter Prize

6.9 Other tests based on compression or Kolmogorov complexity

6.10 Ebert test

6.11 Social Turing game

7. Conferences

7.1 Turing Colloquium

7.2 2008 AISB Symposium

8. See also

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