Do Feelings Compute? If Not, The Turing Test Doesn’t Mean Much
by Geoff Nunberg
July 01, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/01/323984864/do-feelings-compute-if-not-the-turing-test-doesnt-mean-much
At an event held at the Royal Society in London, for the first time ever, a computer passed the Turing Test, which is widely taken as the benchmark for saying a machine is engaging in intelligent thought.
But like the other much-hyped triumphs of artificial intelligence, this one wasn’t quite what it appeared.
Computers can do things that seem quintessentially human, but they usually take a different path to get there.
IBM’s Deep Blue mastered chess not by refining its intuitions but by evaluating hundreds of millions of positions per second.
Watson won at Jeopardy not by wide reading but by swallowing all of Wikipedia
related:
The Turing Test Is Not What You Think It Is
by Alva Noë
June 13, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/06/13/321755270/the-turing-test-is-not-what-you-think-it-is
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/robots-cognitive-abilities-of-a-two-year-old-child
Turing Tests in Creative Arts
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/07/429084124/shall-i-compare-thee-to-an-algorithm-turing-test-gets-a-creative-twist
http://bregman.dartmouth.edu/turingtests