Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!nott-cs!ucl-cs!news From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea Message-ID: <1570@ucl-cs.uucp> Date: 20 May 91 11:15:09 GMT Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk Lines: 37 Jane Philcox writes >> In article <1991May16.143804.16487@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> wallingf@cps.msu.edu (Eu >> gene 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? Yes, that's about it. I have only this reference, which I assume has the story of the Imitation Game:- Hodges, Andrew Alan Turing : the enigma / Andrew Hodges. London : Burnett Books, Sept.1983. - 1v... - 0-09-152130-0 Afzal Ballim writes >> [...] >> To which the answer is a definite no. Given that the number of *sentences* >> alone in English is transfinite, it seems improbable at best to imagine that >> the number of conversations could be finite. Given that one in an infinite number of monkeys has typed out the complete works of Shakespeare, it is impossible for a finite editor to discover which monkey completed this useful:-) task, except by chance... ____ Gordon Joly +44 71 387 7050 ext 3716 Internet: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ...!{uunet,ukc}!ucl-cs!G.Joly Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" - Gramsci