French's Criticism Of The Turing Test

In response to French’s criticism on how the Turing Test is lacking in terms of evaluating machine intelligence accurately, Dale Jacquette criticizes his argument. “It is an empirical matter whether all intelligence is, or is not, sufficiently like human intelligence to be indistinguishable in verbal behavioral expression from that of intelligent humans. It is an open question to be decided by science rather than by a priori philosophical analogies and thought experiments” (Jacquette 68). Jacquette argues that the best way to measure intelligence is verbally because language can tell us many things about an individual such as how they interact and communicate with others, and the Turing Test does that. He also notes that science and philosophical theories are two different things, and French is getting them mixed up.