A neural approach to the Turing Test: The role of emotions.
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society July 1, 2025 Rita Pizzi, Hao Quan, Matteo Matteucci et al.
A new variant of the Turing Test is proposed that relies on the emotional content of human cognition and its link with memory enhancement, a feature argued to be inaccessible to machines even in principle. EEG signals were recorded from 39 subjects who underwent a test where they recognized images previously associated with an emotional reaction more easily than those without such an association, a statistically significant difference. The authors suggest this distinction, rooted in human qualia, could make human and machine responses distinguishable regardless of advances in artificial intelligence.