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From: sylvere@unige.ch (Silvere Martin-Michiellot)
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In article apf@news.bu.edu, kbarnett@cs.bu.edu (Kevin Barnett) writes:
> Hi, I'm doing a report on AI and in specifically the Turing Test. If anyone
> knows of anybody who wrote anything on how good the Turing test is, or if
> you have any opions in general, please e-mail me.  barnett@csa.bu.edu
> Thank you very much.  And no the paper is not due tomorrow, it's due
> Friday.
> 
> 					Kevin

Hi,
Beware, that question is going to have very controversial answers.

A bit of history : by the time Turing proposed his Test, no computer existed. His idea was just to propose an intuitive test to decide if a computer was designed with enough intelligence to behave like a human. The question was not to know if the computer would then be conscious, or intelligent by itself.

But that's the way people understood it. Look at Searle's chinease room, or the Churchlands counter arguments in Scientific American dedicated to that problem about 2 years ago or even the ideas underlying in the books of Varela, Gibson... (sorry, not better refs since nearly all I read was in french).

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"Is anyone alive down there ?"

  

Silvere MARTIN-MICHIELLOT


