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Turing’s aim was to refute claims that aspects of human intelligence were in some mysterious way superior to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) that Turing machines might be programmed to manifest. He sought to do this by proposing a conversational test to distinguish human from AI, a test which, he claimed, would, by the end of the 20th century, fail to work. And, it must be admitted, it often does fail – but not because machines are so intelligent, but because humans, many of them at least, are so wooden.
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Lucas, J. (2009). Commentary on Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. In: Epstein, R., Roberts, G., Beber, G. (eds) Parsing the Turing Test. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_4
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