Revisiting Turing and His Test: Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World

The original TuringTest is modified in order to take into account the age&gender of a Judge who evaluates the machine and the age&gender of a Human with whom the machine is compared during evaluation. This yields a basic taxonomy of TuringTest-consistent scenarios which is subsequently extended by taking into account the type of intelligence being evaluated. Consistently with the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, nine basic intelligence types are proposed, and an example of a possible scenario for evaluation of emotional intelligence in early stages of development is given. It is suggested that specific intelligence types can be subsequently grouped into hierarchy at the top of which is seated an Artificial Intelligence labelled as “meta-modular”. Finally, it is proposed that such a meta-modular AI should be defined as an Artificial Autonomous Agent and should be given all the rights and responsibilities according to age of human counterparts in comparison with whom an AI under question has passed the TuringTest. 1 BASIC TURINGTEST TAXONOMY Primo [1] , we present a labelling schema for a set of diverse artificial intelligence tests inspired by a procedure initially proposed by Alan Mathison Turing [2], in order to standardize attribution and evaluation of the legal status of Artificial Agents (AAs), be it robot, chat-bot or any other non-organic verbally