Tractability and simplicity
No study can provide definitions of
"intelligence" and "thinking" that are sufficiently precise
and general to be applied to machines, but the turing test, even
if imperfect, at least provides something that can actually be measured.
Breadth of subject matter
The format of the
test allows the interrogator to give the machine a wide variety of intellectual
tasks. Turing wrote that "the question and answer method seems to be
suitable for introducing almost any one of the fields of human endeavor that we
wish to include."
In order to pass a
well-designed Turing test, the machine must use natural language, reason, have knowledge and learn. The test can be extended to include video input, as well as a
"hatch" through which objects can be passed. Together, these represent almost
all of the major problems that artificial intelligence research would like to
solve.
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