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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: Chinese Room
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <841@kepler1.rentec.com>
Message-ID: <1992May8.013207.8688@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: was it implemented.
Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 01:32:07 GMT

In article <841@kepler1.rentec.com> fcaggian@rentec.com (Frank Caggiano) writes:
>Can anyone tell me if the chinese room has ever been attempted
>using humans and what the results were?  Is it even possible?
>

No it hasn't, for the simple reason that it requires the existence of
a program which would successfully pass the Turing Test (a Chinese version).
Such a program does not exist, and there is no clear indication that such
a program will be forthcoming anytime soon...

- michael




