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>From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
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Subject: Re: Recent Turing Test
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Date: 17 Nov 91 01:53:20 GMT
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> Did anyone attend the recent Turing Test in Boston? I just read the 
> article on it in Saturday's New York Times. I was amused that in some 
> cases people thought humans were computers.:)

I'm sorry to say I missed the event, but I did hear the report on Boston's
WBUR radio.  However, I can report that on more than one occasion *I* have
been mistaken for an AI program on MicroMuse, our text-based virtual
reality populated by both people-players and robot-players.  :)

Barry Kort


