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From: sst@bouw.tno.nl (Tako Schotanus)
Subject: Re: Turing Test
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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.

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