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Article 3768 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Real-life Turing test
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Date: 15 Feb 92 14:05:56 GMT
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In article <1992Feb10.235221.56220@spss.com>, markrose@spss (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>J: Can't you once just answer me a direct question with a direct reply?
>T: A sudden, bold and unexpected question will frequently catch me
>   by surprise!  You like to think I once just answer you, don't you?  
>   Sometimes I wish I was a systems analyst.
>
>Just let this sink in: half of the judges thought that this sort of drivel
>showed human intelligence.

You can't be serious - I mean, if this is true then there's a good
chance that these same judges would think politicians show human
intelligence in their speeches.

//Jyrki


