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From: janeric@control.lth.se (Jan Eric Larsson)
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Subject: Re: Eliminating Species Bias from the Turing Test
Keywords: Turing Test, non-human
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Date: 5 Feb 90 12:23:55 GMT
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In article <376@radzy.UUCP> radzy@radzy.PacBell.COM (Tim Radzykewycz) writes:
>How can the person asking the question know for certain that
>the answers of either subject (e.g. human or computer program)
>are true?  What are the criteria which s/he can use to determine
>this?

In the Turing test (as described by Turing) the computer/program
is supposed to "pose" as a human, by giving all sorts of answers.
Obviously, most of these will be lies. It is important to observe
that the Turing test is no test for intelligence or consciousness,
at least not according to Turing. It would only prove that the
computer is good at "posing" as a human. The good Alan would
certainly not agree with either Searle or the defenders of the
infamous "strong AI", when it comes to the conclusions of the
Turing test.

See Turing's article in Mind, october, 1950.

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