Papperoni

1995

Turing Test Considered Harmful

Ford, Hayes

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This paper argues that the Turing Test is harmful to AI's progress, damaging its reputation and intellectual coherence, and suggests shifting the focus from imitating human intelligence to creating useful cognitive artifacts.

Main Contributions

Critiques the Turing Test as a goal for AI research.
Argues the Turing Test leads to a focus on imitating human behavior rather than general cognitive principles.
Suggests AI should focus on creating useful cognitive artifacts rather than artificial humans.
Proposes AI should be viewed as the engineering of cognition.
Highlights the limitations of the Turing Test in defining and guiding AI research.

Abstract

Passing the Turing Test is not a sensible goal for Artificial Intelligence. Adherence to Turing's vision from 1950 is now actively harmful to our field. We review problems with Turing's idea, and suggest that, ironically, the very cognitive science that he tried to create must reject his research goal.

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A. M. Turing - 1950

8 papers in library cite

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A must-read, but it gets a bit boring halfway through (as he is describing every counter argument).

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on November 28, 2025

It's a good read but it's terrible arguments!