In Defence of a Reciprocal Turing Test

Mallory, Fintan

Abstract

The traditional Turing test appeals to an interrogator's judgement to determine whether or not their interlocutor is an intelligent agent. This paper argues that this kind of asymmetric experimental set-up is inappropriate for tracking a property such as intelligence because intelligence is grounded in part by symmetric relations of recognition between agents. In place, it proposes a reciprocal test which takes into account the judgments of both interrogators and competitors to determine if an agent is intelligent. This form of social interaction better tracks both the evolution of natural intelligence and how the concept of intelligence is actually used within our society. This new test is defended against the criticisms that a proof of intelligence requires a demonstration of self-consciousness and that semantic externalism entails that a non-embodied Turing test is inadequate.

Citation

Mallory, F. (2020). In Defence of a Reciprocal Turing Test. Minds and Machines, 30(4), 659-680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09552-5

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Dec 7, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Deposit Date: Sep 25, 2024
• Journal: Minds and Machines
• Print ISSN: 0924-6495
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 659-680
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09552-5
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2600593
• Additional Information: Available open access via publisher webpage: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09552-5