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From: medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com (Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO)
Subject: Re: Turing Test
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 18:18:09 GMT
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In article <1995Apr5.103946.5668@hermes.bouw.tno.nl>, sst@bouw.tno.nl (Tako Schotanus) writes:
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950404125210.9283A-100000@ben>, Bo Pollard <cpollard@ben> says:
> >
> >Without sounding like a complete idiot (I know this will be hard to do)...
> >        what is the Turing test?  
> >
> 
> Very simply put it's a test divised to see if a computer
> can be considered intelligent.
> 
> It works like this: put a human at a terminal connected to an
> "intelligent" computer (only, the human doesn't know if it's
> talking to a computer or another human!). When the computer can
> make the human believe it's talking to another human it has
> passed the "Turing Test" and can be considered intelligent,
> concious, self-aware and anything else the psychologists and
> philosofers can think of :)
> 
> The restricted Turing Test puts a limitation on the subject(s)
> that can be discussed during the conversation. For example: you
> might be restricted to discussing only politics or 12th century
> religious art or whatever.

So, by reading the average USENET group, I have become convinced that many of
the articles on USENET are not posted by humans.  Does that mean that they are
not self-aware, etc?  That *would* explain a few things.

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