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Article 6590 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test Myths
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> Eliza never passed the Turing Test.  Never, never, never, never, never.  Not
> even once.  All we have is some anecdotes saying that some people thought they
> were talking to a person when they were really talking to Eliza.  That hardly
> counts as science!

It did, with Feigenbaum's secreatry. She ask Feigenbaum to leave the room.

And it definitely passed the "two second" test!!!!! Some people where
fooled for a very short space of time...

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