title: The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion creator: Harnad, Stevan subject: Artificial Intelligence subject: Philosophy of Mind description: It is important to understand that the Turing Test (TT) is not, nor was it intended to be, a trick; how well one can fool someone is not a measure of scientific progress. The TT is an empirical criterion: It sets AI's empirical goal to be to generate human-scale performance capacity. This goal will be met when the candidate's performance is totally indistinguishable from a human's. Until then, the TT simply represents what it is that AI must endeavor eventually to accomplish scientifically. date: 1992 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/1584/1/harnad92.turing.html identifier: Harnad, Stevan (1992) The Turing Test Is Not A Trick: Turing Indistinguishability Is A Scientific Criterion. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/1584/