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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: The Turing Test is not a Trick
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> The Turing Test is not meant to be a trick, but (1) an empirical task
> (generating human performance capacity) and (2) an ADDED intuitive
> constraint (indistinguishability of the performance from that of a real
> human, as judged by real humans).

The Turing Test is not an empircal task. I would assert that it is a
gedanken.

When will the first experiment be performed?

Gordon.

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