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Not Another Look at the Turing Test!

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SOFSEM 2012: Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2012)

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Practical application of the Turing Test throws up all sorts of questions regarding the nature of intelligence in both machines and humans. For example - Can machines tell original jokes? What would this mean to a machine if it did so? It has been found that acting as an interrogator even top philosophers can be fooled into thinking a machine is human and/or a human is a machine - why is this? Is it that the machine is performing well or is it that the philosopher is performing badly? All these questions, and more, will be considered. Just what does the Turing test tell us about machines and humans? Actual transcripts will be considered with startling results.

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  1. School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK

    Kevin Warwick

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Informatics and Software Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 3, 842 16, Bratislava 4, Slovakia

    Mária Bieliková

  2. Dept. of Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-57, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Gerhard Friedrich

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK

    Georg Gottlob

  4. Security Engineering Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Katzenbeisser

  5. University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Math., Stat. and Comp. Sci, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA; and University of Szeged, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6701 Szeged, Postafiók, Hungary

    György Turán

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Warwick, K. (2012). Not Another Look at the Turing Test!. In: Bieliková, M., Friedrich, G., Gottlob, G., Katzenbeisser, S., Turán, G. (eds) SOFSEM 2012: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27660-6_11

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