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What does the Turing test propose as a criterion for intelligence?

  • A.A machine passes if its internal processes resemble human reasoning
  • B.A machine passes if it can learn any task without being programmed
  • C.A machine passes if an interrogator cannot distinguish it from a person
  • D.A machine passes if it solves problems faster than any human being

Answer: C

Turing proposed an imitation game in which a judge converses with a human and a machine through a text channel and tries to tell which is which. It deliberately avoids any requirement about internal mechanism, replacing an unanswerable question about thinking with an operational one about behaviour. Speed, mechanism and learning capability are not part of the criterion. Substituting an answerable question for an unanswerable one is the move the paper is famous for.

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