A Formal Approach to Exploring the Interrogator’s Perspective in the Turing Test

• Authors: Paweł Łupkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

My aim in this paper is to use a formal approach to the Turing test. This approach is based on a tool developed within Inferential Erotetic Logic, so called erotetic search scenarios. First, I reconstruct the setting of the Turing test proposed by A.M. Turing. On this basis, I build a model of the test using erotetic search scenarios framework. I use the model to investigate one of the most interesting issues of the TT setting - the interrogator’s perspective and role in the test.

Keywords

EN

Turing test; Inferential Erotetic Logic; erotetic search scenarios; game; strategy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 139-158

Dates

published

2011-06-01

online

2013-07-02

Contributors

author

Paweł Łupkowski

• Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science Institute of Psychology Adam Mickiewicz University ul. Szamarzewskiego 89a 60-568 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2011.007