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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Turing Test and Subject Bias
Message-ID: <3079@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 89 09:46:24 GMT
References: <3018@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1108@hydra.cs.Helsinki.FI> <3039@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <408@edai.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
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In article <408@edai.ed.ac.uk> cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>Come on! What are we talking about? Turing suggested a gedanken
>experiment he doesn't think would in practice be possible for 50 years,

So it isn't a test then?

>there's no good reason to contract that estimate, and Gilbert is
>criticising the design of the experiment as though it were commonplace
>practice??

So what is the common practice?
Again, how *DO* AI types test their systems?
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science,  The University, Glasgow
	gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs <europe>!ukc!glasgow!gilbert