Is passing the Turing Test a good test for whether something can think

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Is passing the Turing Test a good test for whether something can think?         Alan Turing proposed a test to in assist answering the question if machines can think. If the system passes the test, it is an indication of the system is an intelligent one. Intelligent not in terms of being smart but more so being a thinker. The machine is rational in a sense of having a capacity to form expressions, needs, and desires of mental states. Moreover, the machine is able to make sense of what is going on in conversations. I will first give a clarification on what the Turing Test consist of and then explain why one might believe that if something passes the test, it is considered a thinking system. Using John Searle’s thought experiment; I can suggest reasons as to why the Turing Test is not a good test. However, I strongly believe that the Chinese Room thought experiment is not suffice to have the same level of language capacity as the actual Turing machine. Therefore, being able to pass the Turing Test is adequate to declare something as a thinking system.         Instead of answering if machines can think, Turing took into consideration if a programmed computer can play a certain game and at the same time be indistinguishable from a human being playing it. Turing proposes an imitation game where it involves a man, a woman, and an interrogator who may be of either sex in separated rooms from the man and the woman (Turing). The interrogator has to determine which of the two are the
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man and the woman by communicating through teletype. It is then asked if the interrogator would decide incorrectly as often as it would have if played with a machine rather than a human being (Turing). The machines which are concerned in this game are logical computing machines that can do anything mechanical. The idea is to start with something empirical by going through different steps; each step is determined which in turn gives rise to a definite result. The machine has an infinite tape which is divided into squares that the machine writes and erase depending on certain types of ...

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