It laid out a proposal for a program of study, stating, "The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it".
It is worth remembering that the focus on AI solutions goes back to 1950s; in 1956 John McCarthy offered one of the first and most influential definitions: "The study [of artificial intelligence] is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it".
The proposal for the conference included this assertion: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it".
2063: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE "A computer program is created that has all the features of human intelligence, including emotion, creativity, the ability to learn and self-awareness".
The problem here is not merely that The Turing Test really does test for human intelligence; rather, the problem here is the fact if indeed it is a fact that there are quite inessential features of human intelligence that are extraordinarily difficult to replicate in a machine.
A. Previous attempts put very abstract features of human intelligence into a machine: chess playing, mathematical theorem-proving and natural language processing.
They complain that classical theory does a poor job of explaining graceful degradation of function, holistic representation of data, spontaneous generalization, appreciation of context, and many other features of human intelligence which are captured in their models.
If this complaint is justified if, indeed, there are features of human intelligence that are extraordinarily difficult to replicate in machines, and that could and would be reliably used to unmask machines in runs of The Turing Test then there is reason to worry about the idea that The Turing Test sets an appropriate direction for research in artificial intelligence.
Creativity is a fundamental feature of human intelligence, and a challenge for AI.
They identify a feature of human intelligence called systematicity which they feel connectionists cannot explain.
