Turing's Test, a Beautiful Thought Experiment
Abstract
In the wake of the latest trends of artificial intelligence (AI), there has been a resurgence of claims and questions about the Turing test and its value, which are reminiscent of decades of practical "Turing" tests. If AI were quantum physics, by now several "Schr\"odinger's" cats would have been killed. It is time for a historical reconstruction of Turing's beautiful thought experiment. This paper presents a wealth of evidence, including new archival sources, and gives original answers to several open questions about Turing's 1950 paper, including its relation with early AI.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.00009,
title = {Turing's Test, a Beautiful Thought Experiment},
author = {Bernardo Gonçalves},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00009},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Author's accepted manuscript to appear in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. "\copyright 2024 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media ..."