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Subject: Re:Re: Can computers think? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 22:46:12 EDT
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> From stolaf!johnsons:
> Computers are NOT effectively Turing machines! ... No computer
> has yet been able to pass the Turing test.

A Turing machine is not related in any way to the Turing test.
It is a theoretical model of a basic `computer', not related directly
to modern computers (Von Neumann machines), used in theories of computability
and such.  The reference meant, basically, that all computers are theoretically
capable of certain classes of computation.

Do I hear Emily Latella somewhere?....

John Owens
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