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From: richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May23.035508.17487@bony1.bony.com>
Date: 23 May 91 03:55:08 GMT
References: <53693@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May16.143804.16487@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May17.064714.5942@latcs2.lat.oz.au> <1991May17.183918.26416@psych.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: richieb@bony1.UUCP (Richard Bielak)
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In article <1991May17.183918.26416@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>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.
> 
>-- 

Turing's paper  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is part of the
book "The Mind's I". The book is a collection of essays selected by
Hofstader and Dennet.


...richie


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