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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: A More Stringent Test for Machine Intelligence
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Keywords: Reverse the roles of humans and machines
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:37:50 GMT
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In article <hubey.786480314@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>
>I got a thought last night about how it might be possible to allay
>the reservations of anti-AI folks regarding the usefulness of the
>Turing Test (TT).  
...........
>It is this part we can change. Let us think of a variation of this 
>test, say HT.  In the TT we use humans as instruments with which to measure
>intelligence. In the HT we reverse the roles. We ask the machine to act
>as the instrument to test the entity (on the other side of the wall) and
>to tell us if it's human or machine.  If the performance of the
>machine is as good (on the average) as humans on the same test, then
>some of the criticisms of the test based on such things as, free will,
>initiative, consciousness, awareness, etc, will be answered. After all,
>in order to be able to actually ask questions, decide on what kinds
>of questions should be asked next, etc, then machine would seem to be
>displaying some kind of a capability of independent, goal-directed and
>initiative-taking or creative endeavor.
>
Interesting, although I wonder why you want to call it "HT" ;-). How
about ITT (Inverse Turing Test)?
>
>						-- Mark---

Andrzej
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