{"id":11081,"date":"2019-01-31T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:40:27","slug":"ics-colloquium-three-perspectives-on-the-turing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2019\/ics-colloquium-three-perspectives-on-the-turing-test\/","title":{"rendered":"ICS Colloquium: Three Perspectives on the Turing Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Feb 06, 2019\u00a03:00pm-4:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Dunton Tower: Room 2203<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/people\/josh-redstone-2\/\">Josh Redstone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Three Perspectives on the Turing Test<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alan Turing proposed the Imitation Game nearly seventy years ago to replace the question, \u201cCan machines think?\u201d (Turing 1950). In this talk, I will show that since Turing first introduced the Imitation Game \u2013 now known as the Tring test \u2013 it has been viewed in one of two ways: as an experimental test of whether a machine, i.e. a digital computer, can be said to think; and, as a thought-experiment directed at testing one\u2019s intuitions about the conceivability of thinking machines. I illustrate these two perspectives with the aim of introducing a third, novel approach toward the Turing test. This approach applies the Turing test as an experimental apparatus for learning about how people engage cognitively and emotionally with intelligent machines.<\/p>\n<p>My discussion will proceed as follows. I show that the Turing test as an experimental test of machine intelligence serves as a kind of other-directed experimental apparatus. Similarly, the Turing test as thought-experiment serves as a kind of other-directed conceptual apparatus. The reason I argue these are other-directed is that they are concerned with whether a machine can be said to have a mind based upon its verbal behaviour. But I wish to change the focus of Turing\u2019s test toward the people who interact with machines, and not the machines themselves. Here, the test is meant to enable cognitive scientists to better understanding why people perceive or judge that a machine thinks or does not think, not to answer the tricky philosophical question, \u201cCan machines think?\u201d Thus, this application of Turing\u2019s test is \u201cself-directed\u201d or \u201creflexive.\u201d I call this the Reflexive Experimental Turing Apparatus. I shall devote the remainder of my discussion toward explaining why this application of Turing\u2019s test in fact counts as a variant of the Turing test, and toward highlighting what I believe cognitive scientists can learn by applying it as an experimental apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:\u00a0Feb 06, 2019\u00a03:00pm-4:30pm Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203 Speaker:\u00a0Josh Redstone Title: Three Perspectives on the Turing Test Abstract: Alan Turing proposed the Imitation Game nearly seventy years ago to replace the question, \u201cCan machines think?\u201d (Turing 1950). In this talk, I will show that since Turing first introduced the Imitation Game \u2013 now known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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