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Turing Test Paradox

Can imitation of intelligence be equated with actual intelligence?

Overview

The question of whether behavioral indistinguishability from intelligence constitutes actual intelligence.

Turing proposed: if a machine's conversation is indistinguishable from a human's, we should consider it intelligent. But this conflates appearing intelligent with being intelligent. Can something fake intelligence perfectly without possessing it?

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