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From: gcj%qmc-ori.uucp@CS.UCL.AC.UK
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Subject: The Turing Test - A Third Quantisation?
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 07:54:02 EST
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The original basis  for the Turing test was to  see if it was possible
to distinguish, purely from a text,  whether you were talking to a man
or woman. The extension of this, the Turing test itself, seeks to give
a criterion  for deciding  on whether or not  a intelligent system  is 
"truly intelligent".  A human  asks questions and receives  answers in
textual form.  (S)he then has to decide  if it is a machine behind the 
screen or not.
Now,  supposing a system  has been built which  "passes" the test. Why
not take  the process  one stage  further?  Why not  try to design  an 
intelligent system which can decide whether *it* is talking to machine 
or not?

Gordon Joly
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