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Article 3301 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test
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bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:

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>   But my real question is:  are there any other good, simple,
> straightforward benchmarks for AI?
> 
>         -- Bill

That assumes that the Turing Test is "good, simple, straightforward".
The number of posts to this list suggest that it far that.

Test? Best one I know is humour.

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