title: The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test) creator: Edmonds, B. subject: Artificial Intelligence subject: Philosophy of Mind description: The Turing Test, as originally specified, centres on the ability to perform a social role. The TT can seen as a test of an ability to enter into normal human social dynamics. In this light it seems unlikely that such an entity can be wholly designed in an `off-line' mode, but rather a considerable period of training in situ would be required. The argument that since we can pass the TT and our cognitive processes might be implemented as a TM that, in theory, an TM that could pass the TT could be built is attacked on the grounds that not all TMs are constructable in a planned way. This observation points towards the importance of developmental processes that include random elements (e.g. evolution), but in these cases it becomes problematic to call the result artificial. date: 1999-08 type: Preprint type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/397/3/consai.pdf identifier: Edmonds, B. (1999) The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test). [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/397/