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From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: The Turing-Ring Test -- A Limitation Game.
Message-ID: <589@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 13:14:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.589
Posted: Thu Jul  3 13:14:26 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jul-86 01:07:16 EDT
References: <7101.8606281319@maths.qmc.ac.uk>
Reply-To: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <7101.8606281319@maths.qmc.ac.uk> gcj@qmc-ori.UUCP (The Joka) writes:
>The following test has been proposed. Appoint one (or more)
>adjudicators to decide on which of the two parties in the
>test, persons A and B, is talking to a telephone answering
>machine and which is talking to a human being. This test is
>not limited to textual information, although person A should
>relay the same information as person B.
>
>The Joka.

Wonderful idea!  An even better idea:  You've probably answered the phone,
only to find that the voice on the other end is a computerized "survey".  I
propose the following test: which of two computerized "survey"
programs is talking to a telephone answering machine and which is talking to a
human being...:-)
-- 
Mike Maxwell
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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