From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!dsd!atd!avsdS:avsdT:wcl
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Refutation of the Turing test
Article-I.D.: avsdT.209
Posted: Mon Dec 13 17:48:25 1982
Received: Tue Dec 14 06:57:02 1982
References: ihuxv.401

Yes, there is a difference between someone who "knows" Chinese, and
someone who can "merely" give the right answers all the time.  It is
subtle, and possibly not rigourously definable, but it is the same
as the difference between someone who's really "all there", and
a psychotic who's only faking normalcy.  If you talk to someone who's
distanced from reality for long enough, you'll know the difference.
Most of the AI simulations of intelligence come across  like someone
who's either bored, but far too polite to let you know, or who's
very single-minded and refuses to talk about anything else.  Anyone
in "real life" who NEVER displayed the ability to talk about anything
other than medical diagnosis (or oil drilling, take your pick of the
"expert" programs) would be classified as not sane.  The relation
between sanity and intellignce get's VERY hairy, so I'll bow out
at this point...

			Bill Lindemann
			fortune!atd!avsdT:wcl