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From: iic@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Ian Clarke)
Subject: Re: Losing the Loebner Competition Forced me to Re-evaluate my Humanity
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>In article <1770B9192S86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl> U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin) writes:
>>In article <4ct9j5$kue@ralph.vnet.net>
>>tadpole@vnet.net writes:
>> 
>>>It seems to me that one problem [with the T. test] is that judges more or less
>>>"expect" to interact with computers.  That is, they expect some respondents to
>>>be computers, so they are forced to resort to "abnormal" questions, questions
>>>that people would not ask each other upon the first meeting.
<<SNIP>>
> 
This is not a problem with the Turin Test, this is a problem with the use of the
Turin test to determine whether something is intelligent.  Turin never intended
this test to be used as a test for intelligence.


|IAN CLARKE        I.Clarke@sms.ed.ac.uk "They couldn't hit an elephant|
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