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From: jm@netcom.com (Jason Mastaler)
Subject: Re: Please outline Turing Test
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 19:02:55 GMT
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In article <zpc325aAc3pWZf0@pp78hsp.hsp.zer.de> T.EICHER@HSP.zer.de writes:
>
>Hi there,
>
>reading several articles in this newsgroup, I stumbled over a "Turing"
>test for AI. I wasn't able to find any explanation in the AI.faq,
>so could someone please outline this test for me ? (And perhas
>for the FAQ)
>
>Thanks in advance ...
>
>Tom
>

From what I understand, researchers in AI have a test of machine
intelligence called the Turing test.  To determine whether a machine
is intelligent, the Turing test suggests that we imagine a person
being given instructions on what to do by both a machine, and another
person.  When the person can no longer tell which of them is giving
instructions, intelligence had been modeled by the machine.

IMA, I don't beleive that this definitio represents the original form 
in which Alan Turing proposed it, but rather the form in which contemporary
work in AI uses it.

-- Jason Mastaler
   jm@netcom.com


