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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May19.024648.18969@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 19 May 91 02:46:48 GMT
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In article <1991May17.064714.5942@latcs2.lat.oz.au> jane@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jane Philcox) writes:
>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.

	Turing adapted his test from a "parlor game" in which a person would
judge out of two people, one male and the other females, which one was
female.

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The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM