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No: failing the Test is not decisive

It is possible to fail the Turing Test for intelligence and still be an intelligent being.



Ned Block 1981.


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Some intelligent beings would fail the test
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Vulnerable to counter-examples
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No: Test assumes representationalist theory of mind
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