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From: gurr@west44.UUCP (Dave Gurr)
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Subject: Re: Should The Turing test be modified with the times?
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Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 05:44:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 31 05:44:54 1984
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< force of habit ... >

I think that we're all missing something here - the Turing test was not
designed to test how like a human a machine could be, but to test whether
or not a machine could appear to think. Adding such facilities to the test
such as a video link merely makes the test into an imitation game. This
is not what the test was designed for.

Personally, I think the test is totally inconclusive and irrelevant. It gives
merely a subjective qualitative answer to a question which we cannot answer
satisfactorily about other people, or even about ourselves (from some of the
items on USENET, I'm sure some people don't think :-) !!!).

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					vax135

	Dave Gurr, Westfield College, Univ. of London, England.