On the Concept of Intelligence in the Context of the Turing Test
Keywords:
The Turing Test, Intelligence, Machine Intelligence, Turing-intelligenceAbstract
The Turing Test (TT), developed by Alan Turing as “the imitation game” in his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950), brought to light the discussion about the (im)possibility of thinking and intelligent digital machines. This paper revisits the Turing Test and analyzes the concept of intelligence under its light, exploring Turing's understanding of intelligence. The focus is on whether Turing views intelligence as human intelligence (referred to here as genuine intelligence) or as some other type of intelligence. The research results suggest: 1) The possibility to argue the Turing Test as not being developed to assess whether the digital computer involved possesses genuine (human) intelligence or not, but rather to evaluate if it can be intelligent in a different sense, termed hereby Turing-intelligence; 2) The Turing Test is achievable in practice, given some modifications, resulting in a new version of the test, named herewith the Ideal Turing Test. Therefore, the findings indicate that the TT can be interpreted to support the hypothesis that passing such test is a sufficient condition for an AI system to possess not genuine intelligence, but rather another type of intelligence, namely Turing-intelligence.
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