> can fool a person into treating it like another person
"perceiving something as something" and "treating something as something", different verbs. Turing tests aren't about treatment, they are about perception.
The field is wide open for thought tests or games on how to "treat" computers so I would say knock yourself out and make a better one.
The Turing test doesn't do a whole lot of good at answering those questions or for that matter any questions. Other than "will a computer be able to fool a human eventually".
The notion of machine rights existing at all is evidence that Turing's prediction that the way intelligence is thought of would change, but still most people would challenge the idea that computers think.
Maybe in another 65 years that will change further - and machine rights will no longer be a fringe idea.
> "perceiving something as something" and "treating something as something", different verbs.
Well yes, but if you perceive something as something that you will treat it as if it were that thing. And that is exactly what would happen during a successful Turing test - the computer would be treated as if it were a human by the judge.
your position is trivially falsifiable - mistakenly interact with an irc bot or an automated telephone service as if it were human, then on realisation - you treat it like a machine again.
"perceiving something as something" and "treating something as something", different verbs. Turing tests aren't about treatment, they are about perception.
The field is wide open for thought tests or games on how to "treat" computers so I would say knock yourself out and make a better one.
The Turing test doesn't do a whole lot of good at answering those questions or for that matter any questions. Other than "will a computer be able to fool a human eventually".
The notion of machine rights existing at all is evidence that Turing's prediction that the way intelligence is thought of would change, but still most people would challenge the idea that computers think.
Maybe in another 65 years that will change further - and machine rights will no longer be a fringe idea.