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From: squire@cui.unige.ch (David SQUIRE)
Subject: Re: Losing the Loebner Competition Forced me to Re-evaluate my Humanity
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In article <GDR11.96Jan16182756@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk>, gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees) writes:
>Ian Clarke <iic@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> This is not a problem with the Turin Test, this is a problem with the
>> use of the Turin test to determine whether something is intelligent.
>> Turin never intended this test to be used as a test for intelligence.
>
>The Turin test, of course, involves blindfolding the test subject and
>dropping him or her somewhere in the backstreets of a town in Italy.  If
>the subject emerges unscathed, they are said to have passed the Turin
>test.  Computers are well-known to do badly.
>
>-- 
>Gareth Rees

This is an incomplete description. In fact, in the Turin test, a full-body blindfold
is used. The candidate is judged by how human the impression it makes on the
blindfold is, rather than on some possibly-biased human judges. The role that
electromagnetic effects play in creating such an impression has been a source of
great debate over the centuries. It is not known whether the use of a computer is
permitted though. The relationship of this test to intelligence is shrouded in
mystery.

Squizz
 


