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Turing Test underdetermines creation of humanlike robots

The Test's focus on a subset of human behavior—symbolic capacity—underconstrains the engineering task of creating robots with human capabilities. Thus, machines that pass won't be easily extensible to machines that have other human capacities.


Steve Harnad, 1995.
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