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Subject: The CyberTest
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 14:52:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 14:52:41 1987
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Reply-To: grady@apple.UUCP (Grady Ward)
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	O.K.  So the Turing test can tell you when AI's are
indistinguishable from humans.  But what we'll need in the 90's is a
way to tell when AI's are uncontrovertedly superior to humans --
this test, I propose to call the CyberTest.
	The criterion the CyberTest uses is simple: when an AI is so
persuasive, intuitive, and eloquent that EVERY person is convinced of
its superiority, then, in fact, it will be.  This is a good test because the
sufficiency of it cannot be questioned.  (Since everyone is convinced,
no one would think to ask the question.) 
	The hard part, of course, is convincing everybody of the AI's
preeminence.  Isn't there always at least one old redneck who
refuses to accept anything?  Well, thats why I call the criterion the
"CyberTest," because in that case -- when no one's looking -- the AI
ensures unanimity by excising the holdout.
-- Grady Ward