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Some Implications of a Sample of Practical Turing Tests

Authors: Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, James Moor

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 2/2013

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A series of imitation games involving 3-participant (simultaneous comparison of two hidden entities) and 2-participant (direct interrogation of a hidden entity) were conducted at Bletchley Park on the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth: 23 June 2012. From the ongoing analysis of over 150 games involving (expert and non-expert, males and females, adults and child) judges, machines and hidden humans (foils for the machines), we present six particular conversations that took place between human judges and a hidden entity that produced unexpected results. From this sample we focus on features of Turing’s machine intelligence test that the mathematician/code breaker did not consider in his examination for machine thinking: the subjective nature of attributing intelligence to another mind.

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Title: Some Implications of a Sample of Practical Turing Tests
Authors: Kevin Warwick
Huma Shah
James Moor
Publication date: 01-05-2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Minds and Machines / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-013-9301-y

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