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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: The Turing Test - A Third Quantisation?
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Date: 4 Dec 90 12:18:38 GMT
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The original basis  for the Turing test was to  see if it was possible
to distinguish, purely from a text,  whether you were talking to a man
or woman. The extension of this, the Turing test itself, seeks to give
a criterion  for deciding  on whether or not an intelligent system  is
"truly intelligent".  A human  asks questions and receives  answers in
textual form.  (S)he then has to decide  if it is a machine behind the
screen or not.
Now,  supposing a system  has been built which  "passes" the test. Why
not take  the process  one stage  further?  Why not  try to design  an
intelligent system which can decide whether *it* is talking to machine
or not?

Gordon.

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