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Making the Right Identification in the Turing Test1

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The test Turing proposed for machine intelligence is usually understood to be a test of whether a computer can fool a human into thinking that the computer is a human. This standard interpretation is rejected in favor of a test based on the Imitation Game introduced by Turing at the beginning of "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."

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Traiger, S. Making the Right Identification in the Turing Test1. Minds and Machines 10, 561–572 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011254505902

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