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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Turing's Playful Games
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:10:15 GMT
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In article <3kcqcr$3td@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In <3kcp3s$ghg@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Aftrglow@ix.netcom.com (Tom Hunscher) writes:
>>In <3kcdj5$sfi@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: 
>>>In <3kbj93$sfg@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> Aftrglow@ix.netcom.com (Tom 
>>Hunscher) writes:
>
>>>>I have always thought the Turing Test (and the whole idea of AI) 
>>bogus. 
>>>>What is the relationship between simulation and intelligence? I mean, 
>>>>wouldn't a truly "intelligent" machine know that it's a machine?
>
>>>You're a machine - a biochemical machine.  If you are "truly"
>>>intelligent, how come you don't know that you are a machine?
>
>>That's my point. I DO know what I am. A Turing machine doesn't have to, 
>>does it. In fact, it doesn't have to know anything except how to respond 
>>like a person (which means, unlike what it really is).
>
>If a Turing machine doesn't know, then it flunks the Turing Test.

Why is that?

