I think the other replies to this objection all miss the mark. It is a philosophical issue whether or not we can really KNOW, objectively, that a machine is intelligent. The turing test does not do this. It only tells us when we can't tell the difference. One must establish criteria for intelligence in general first. Searle's Chinese Room argument can always be devised in a way which excludes us from knowing that any thing other than a human being *has* intelligence.
But I think an important issue is what we learn from artificial intelligence, in terms of programming skills, will help us get our work done faster and better.
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I think the other replies to this objection all miss the mark. It is a philosophical issue whether or not we can really KNOW, objectively, that a machine is intelligent. The turing test does not do this. It only tells us when we can't tell the difference. One must establish criteria for intelligence in general first. Searle's Chinese Room argument can always be devised in a way which excludes us from knowing that any thing other than a human being *has* intelligence.
But I think an important issue is what we learn from artificial intelligence, in terms of programming skills, will help us get our work done faster and better.