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From: me@csri.toronto.edu (Daniel R. Simon)
Subject: Re: If it does not pass TT it is not intelligent????
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.110450.24630@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: TT, intelligence
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <1991Jun17.064232.2536@panix.uucp>
Date: 18 Jun 91 15:04:50 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.064232.2536@panix.uucp> yanek@panix.uucp (Yanek Martinson) writes:
>Performance of a system on TT shows how human that is, but not neccessarily
>how intelligent. For example if some martians arrive and somehow learn
>our language, they most likely can not pass the TT since they would be
>most likely very different from humans and possible to distinguish. Would
>that mean they are less intelligent? Or that they are not intelligent at all?
>Is there any other, more objective test that tests for intelligence, not
>for similarity to human beings?

A similar problem arises with regard to rocks, all of which (beyond a certain
size, at least) are in fact prodigiously intelligent, yet, because of their
extreme natural lethargy, invariably easily distinguishable from humans in a
"Turing Test" setting.


"There *is* confusion worse than death"		Daniel R. Simon
			     -Tennyson		(me@theory.toronto.edu)