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From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May17.183918.26416@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <53693@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May16.143804.16487@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May17.064714.5942@latcs2.lat.oz.au>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 18:39:18 GMT

In article <1991May17.064714.5942@latcs2.lat.oz.au> jane@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jane Philcox) writes:
>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?
>
I think the original paper's in _Mind_ 1950. It's well worth the read. Turing
was far less zealous than some of latter-day followers.
 
-- 
Christopher D. Green
Psychology Department                             e-mail:
University of Toronto                   christo@psych.toronto.edu
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