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From: jane@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jane Philcox)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May17.064714.5942@latcs2.lat.oz.au>
Date: 17 May 91 06:47:14 GMT
References: <1991May15.055331.10631@cs.ubc.ca> <53693@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May16.143804.16487@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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In article <1991May16.143804.16487@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> wallingf@cps.msu.edu (Eugene Wallingford) writes:
>     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.  
                              ^^^^^^
Huh?  I've only heard of the test as a test of intelligence.  Have I missed
something somewhere?  Was it originally a test to see whether you could tell
males from females, and then later adapted to the intelligence area?

References, someone?

Regards, Jane.


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