The Turing Test on the Human Stage

Year: 2023 Authors: Stephen Abbott

Core claim

Turing’s test remains insightful when read as a theatrical exercise in imitation, empathy, and human self-understanding rather than a simple deception benchmark.

Topics

Turing Test, chatbots, theater and computing, machine intelligence

Domains

computability theory, Turing machines, Hilbert’s decision problem, theater, playwriting, performance studies

Methods

textual analysis, literary interpretation, comparative reading

Media

play excerpts, dialogue, stage blocking

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