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Turing Revisited: A Cognitively-Inspired Decomposition

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Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics ((SAPERE,volume 5))

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After a short assessment of the idea behind the Turing Test, its actual status and the overall role it played within AI, I propose a computational cognitive modeling-inspired decomposition of the Turing test as classical “strong AI benchmark” into at least four intermediary testing scenarios: a test for natural language understanding, an evaluation of the performance in emulating human-style rationality, an assessment of creativity-related capacities, and a measure of performance on natural language production of an AI system. I also shortly reflect on advantages and disadvantages of the approach, and conclude with some hints and proposals for further work on the topic.

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    Tarek Richard Besold

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Besold, T.R. (2013). Turing Revisited: A Cognitively-Inspired Decomposition. In: Müller, V. (eds) Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31674-6_9

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