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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test Myths
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Date: 13 Aug 92 11:34:33 GMT
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>> From:    moravec@Think.COM (Hans Moravec)
>> Subject: Re: Turing Test Myths
>> 
>> In article <2838@ucl-cs.uucp>, G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
>> |> > Eliza never passed the Turing Test.  Never, never, never, never, never.
>> 
>> |> It did, with Feigenbaum's secreatry. She ask Feigenbaum to leave the room.
>> 
>> One might imagine a test to distinguish stories about conversations with 
>> Weizenbaum's secretary, and conversations with Feigenbaum's secretary.
>> 
>> Maybe something keyed on Bostonisms vs. Californiaspeak.

OOPS++! My mistake. Still, ``she'' was fooled for some of the time...
that seems to me to be the essence of the TT. OK, so she was taking
part in the experiment with knowing the "rules of the game", but are
not pyshcology experiments designed in just that way?

She was the subject of the experiment, not the box of tricks.

Gordon.

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