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Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: The CyberTest
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 21:10:38 EDT
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In article <6413@apple.UUCP> grady@apple.UUCP (Grady Ward) writes:
>	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.) 
>-- Grady Ward

	But all (ha!) that this requires is an expert system for convincing
humans,  a talking head that scores high on retoric.  The only area that 
it would really be superior in would be convincing people (not easy, but...)
I'm afraid that the Cybertest is going to require a little more than this,
as some of us will require more than persuation, intuition and eloquence to
say that someon or thing is superior.  It's gonna take *proof*!

	Nice idea though.  How would you have it go about proving its
superiority as opposed to just talking about it?


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