Is "intelligence" emotional?

Consider the famous "Turing test":

The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the "imitation game." It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game is for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is an A and Y is a B" or "X is a B and Y is an A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B.

When talking about the Turing Test today what is generally pictured in that the interrogator is connected to one person and one machine via a computer and therefore cannot see them. The task of the interrogator is to find out which of the two candidates is the machine, and which is the human only by asking them questions. If the machine can "fool" the interrogator, it is intelligent.

This test has been subject to different kinds of criticism and has been at the heart of many discussions in AI, philosophy and cognitive science for the past 50 years.

It's a really hard thing to program, I am not sure it's ever been achieved. Kind of like the android test in Blade Runner I guess.

Which brings me onto "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" - well, do they ?

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