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From: samlb@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The CyberTest
Message-ID: <4173@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 17:47:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 17:47:29 1987
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Reply-To: samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett)
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Keywords: AI Turing
Summary: Not formally

In article <3099@uwmcsd1.UUCP> cmaag@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Christopher N Maag) writes:
>could someone expand a little on the "Turing Test"?  Was it actually 
>devised by Turing?

	As far as I know, there is no such thing as a formal "Turing Test" with
criteria -- the idea came from a remark of Turing's that a machine would have
reached "intelligence" or "sentience" if, when put in a room with a teletype
machine (the ultimate in I/O in those days), you couldn't tell whether the
entity on the other end of the circuit was a human or a machine.
	In Gibson, the Turing Test seems to involve finding out whether the
AI obeys Asimov's Laws of Robotics or not -- i.e. is ultimately controllable
by human beings, rather than self-determining, capricious, and ruthless (like
_real_ human beings).  The "Turing Commission" people (with some justification)
seek to pull the plug on dangerous machine intelligences . . .
	{ Enter asbestos suit }
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