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From: ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk (Oliver Sparrow)
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Subject: Re: Turing's Playful Games
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In article <3k4iub$p8n@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>
           colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu "Kenneth Colby" writes:

 >    Turing proposed two imitation games.  In the first, an
 >    interrogator tries to decide, based on written replies,
 >    which of two people in another room is a man and which
 >    is a woman.  In the second game, a computer program
 >    substitutes for the man who imitates a woman.  

I can't see the hook in this: so what if they can or can't? The second
reduces to the TT, or asks if one might learn enough from the first
to simulate the differences between a man's responses and a woman's, ever
given that you can do either in a convincing manner.

One could get into some interesting games is - for example - male interviewees
lied to alternative questions and repeat questions were not allowed; and so 
forth. Which door has the tiger behind it; and who shaves the lying Cretan 
barber when Achilles comes in sweaty from having failed to catch the tortoise?

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  Oliver Sparrow
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