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From: wallingf@cps.msu.edu (Eugene Wallingford)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
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Date: 16 May 91 14:38:04 GMT
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Brian Lintz writes:

>... The Turing Test is even more stringent;
>you know beforehand that the person may be human or a computer,
>so you can gear your questions toward it. ... If I couldn't
>tell if the machine was a machine or a human, in all fairness,
>I would have to assume it was intelligent.

     Actually, in Turing's original "Imitation Game," the interrogator
     does not know beforehand which is which; the task is to determine
     which respondent is the female.  (I thinks that's right...)  So
     Brian's second sentence above is closer to Turing's intention --
     can the interrogator determine which is which, without knowing
     in advance?


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