CYAINov 24, 2025

In Defense of the Turing Test and its Legacy

arXiv:2511.20699v1
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This work addresses philosophical and historical debates in AI, but it is incremental as it revisits existing arguments without introducing new empirical findings.

The paper defends the Turing Test against common criticisms, arguing that these critiques are unfair to Turing's original argument and the historical development of AI, without presenting new experimental results or numerical data.

Considering that Turing's original test was co-opted by Weizenbaum and that six of the most common criticisms of the Turing test are unfair to both Turing's argument and the historical development of AI.

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