Operational interpretation is too rigid

If thinking's operationally defined, systems that pass the test are necessarily intelligent: systems that fail necessarily unintelligent. But this is too rigid. Intelligent machines could fail the test and unintelligent machines could pass the test.

Ned Block, 1981.
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