The Interrogator as Critic: The Turing Test and the Evaluation of Generative Music Systems

摘要

As Dennett states of restricted text-based TTs, "we should resist all limitations and waterings-down of the Turing test ... they make the game too easy ... they lead us into the risk of overestimating the actual comprehension of the system being tested" (Dennett 1998, p. 11). The MDtT and MOtT are too easy. Music, as a medium remote from natural language, is a poor vessel for Turing's Imitation Game. Generative music systems gain nothing from associating their output with the TT; worse, overestimation may devalue the real creativity in the design and interface of these systems.