Beyond the Turing Test ( Extended , original internal report )

We define the main factor of intelligence as the ability to comprehend, formalising this ability with the help of new constructs based on descriptional complexity. The result is a comprehension test, or C-test, exclusively defined in terms of universal descriptional machines (e.g universal Turing machines). Despite the absolute and non-anthropomorphic character of the test it is equally applicable to both humans and machines. Moreover, it correlates with classical psychometric tests, thus establishing the first firm connection between information theoretic notions and traditional IQ tests. The Turing Test is compared with the C-test and their joint combination is discussed. As a result, the idea of the Turing Test as a practical test of intelligence should be left behind, and substituted by computational and factorial tests of different cognitive abilities, a much more useful approach for artificial intelligence progress and for many other intriguing questions that are presented beyond the Turing Test.