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From: ndb123@utb.shv.hb.se (Magnus 'Gizmo' Bergqvist)
Subject: Re: Are there non-humans lurking on Internet/Usenet?
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>> Indeed, a holy grail of AI for decades has been to write a program which can 
>> pass the famous "Turing Test".  To pass, the program must fool a human 
>> being talking with it into believing they are conversing with another real 
>> person. ...

>  This has always seemed like a kinda dumb test to me, because you could
>probably get around it pretty easily with a cheating strategy.  Just
>have your program pretend to be a non-native speaker and simulate
>transmission problems:

well, to truly be able to pass this test, the program would have to be able 
to answer questions from a variety of fields. Thus it will after a while 
show if it is a person or a computer answering the quetions.

They do however sort of cheat when it comes to calculations, since a 
computer is much faster and better, they have to have a delay, and possible 
some way for the computer to calculate incorrectly.
