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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 09:37:00 EST
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THE MUELLER MEASURE

If an AI could be built to answer all questions we ask it to assure us
that it is ideally human (the Turing Test), it ought to
be smart enough to figure out questions to ask itself
that would prove that it is indeed artificial.  Put another
way: If an AI could make humans think it is smarter than
a human by answering all questions posed to it in a
Turing-like manner, it still is dumber than a human because
it could not ask questions of a human to make us answer
the questions so that it satisfies its desire for us to
make it think we are more artificial than it is.  Again:
If we build an AI so smart it can fool other people
by answering all questions in the Turing fashion, can
we build a computer, anti-Turing-like, that could make
us answer questions to fool other machines
into believing we are artificial?

Robert E. Mueller, Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey

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