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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test Myths
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Date: 11 Aug 92 17:58:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: marky@dip.eecs.umich.edu's message of 11 Aug 92 14: 38:19 GMT

marky@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Mark Anthony Young) writes:

   > The "two second" Turing Test would involve telling her that she
   > might be talking to a machine (and providing a human for
   > comparison purposes), and then comparing Eliza's performance
   > after two seconds with that of men immitating women for two
   > seconds (over a teletype interface!).

There seems to be a slight confusion here.  The Turing Test does not
in any way involve men imitating women.  Turing used that idea to
*motivate* the test, but it isn't part of the test -- the test only
looks at the ability to correctly distinguish humans when computers
attempt to imitate them.

	-- Bill


