Utilizing Child IQ Tests to Measure Robot Intelligence Ben Goertzel Feb 13, 2013 This document informally discusses some issues involved in using the WPPSI, the standard IQ testing instrument for preschool children, to assess the general intelligence of robots. Basic Assumptions I will assume, here, use of the exact same WPPSI questions administered to human children. Of course, there are obvious ways one could thoroughly adapt the WPPSI questions for robots, but that becomes a different sort of exercise than the one undertaken here. My concern here will be: How to make administration of the actual human-oriented WPPSI, a meaningful evaluation of robot intelligence. The only exception I will suggest to the preceding paragraph, is to ignore questions relating specifically to the test subject's own personal body or experience, in ways that specifically pertain to the differences between human and robot. For instance, we shouldn't ask "touch your hair" to a robot without hair. "Touch your head" would be fine. Such questions play a very minor role in WPPSI, occurring occasionally and incidentally among other questions. In terms of the physical test set-up, it seems fair to assume a robot sitting across a table from the human examiner. To emulate human testing conditions accurately, the robot will need ears to hear the examiner speak, eyes to see the pictures and objects displayed and the physical environment, a voice to answer questions, and hands or some other manipulators to move around blocks and puzzle pieces. Optionally, it would seem unproblematic to assume that the robot has textual rather than voice communication with the examiner, as the test questions don't explicitly involve auditory pattern recognition, only visual. Given a robot that communicates via text and achieves a certain WPPSI score, one could automatically produce a robot communicating via voice and achieving the same score, by simply adding on a speech synthesizer and