Re: What's the common criticism on Turing Test?

Martin,


Martin Gradwell wrote:
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> First of all, for a really intelligent machine to pass the test it
> has to either a) lie or b) be deluded about its true nature. Now
> ability to harbour a delusion is probably not a good measure of
> intelligence; and the use of ability to lie as a measure of 
> intelligence is a slight to all those people for whom lying is 
> anathema. Would you say that habitual truth-tellers are all 
> unintelligent?

Have you ever considered that the human ability to dissemble (not to
mention our fondness for synonyms for "lie") may originate in our
ability to imagine things that are not real? That dishonesty is a
by-product of our creative abilities? Perhaps lying is an inevitable
counterpart of our ability to conceive of things not directly
reflective of our internal model of the physical world? Inevitable,
anyway, given the evolutionary pathway by which humam cognition developed.


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> Martin