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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Turing Test and Subject Bias
Message-ID: <3078@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 89 09:44:23 GMT
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Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
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In article <407@edai.ed.ac.uk> cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>In article I write
>>
>>The term has no role today apart from common sense approbation.
>
>Would you say the same sort of thing about 'consciousness'? Knowledge?
>Belief? 

Of course not.  These are still very productive terms (e.g. race
relations, Drucker's theories on knowledge workers, the Rushdie debate
over respect for beliefs).

Intelligence is dead outside of AI.  Look at the psychometrics
literature of the 1970s.

Is anyone in psychology still studying intelligence and its measurement?
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science,  The University, Glasgow
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