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The Mismeasure of Machines

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2016)

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We reply to Hector Levesque’s critique of the Turing Test and his proposal for “a new type of Turing Test”, a Winograd Schema Test. We question whether the role of deception in the Turing Test is, as Levesque asserts, “a serious problem”. We argue that the Levesque Test specifies the nature of intelligence in a way that Turing wished to avoid. We conclude that the Turing Test appeals to the collective judgment of humankind, a judgment that, in the case of AI, has yet to be rendered.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, 176 Thorvaldson Bldg. 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C9, Canada

    Eric Neufeld & Sonje Finnestad

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  1. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

    Richard Khoury

  2. National Research Council Canada , Ottawa, Canada

    Christopher Drummond

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Neufeld, E., Finnestad, S. (2016). The Mismeasure of Machines. In: Khoury, R., Drummond, C. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9673. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34111-8_8

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