The Turing Test: An Enduring AI Standard
Timothy McGettigan · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013
AI has not progressed as far as Alan Turing predicted that it would in 1950. Turing believed that with sufficient progress in the areas of computer memory, processing power and programming computers would soon (i.e., by approximately the year 2000) approximate human intelligence. The year 2000 has come and gone and, in spite of Turing's optimistic prediction, no computer exists that stands a serious chance of passing the Turing Test. In part, this is because intelligence remains a poorly understood phenomenon. Although it is highly likely that AI researchers will succeed in developing a form of machine intelligence that can pass the Turing Test, I argue that AI will remain elusive until until AI researchers develop a more sophisticated understanding of the aesthetics of intelligence.