Re: Turing Test Meaningless?

["Ian K. Erickson" <ierickson@ewu.edu>]

The Turing Test is a scientific circus act that only proves how easy it 
is to fool people into thinking their computer is intelligent.  People 
are animistic by nature (read The Golden Bough by James Frazier) and 
tend to emplicate things they don't understand in terms of their one 
motives.  Now, getting a computer to produce *verifyable* results of 
cognition, that would be cool and a real *test* of a Turing/Von Neuman 
machine.

The T-test isn't "meaningless."  It just doesn't mean what the "human 
interest" members of the media would like you to think.  They, like 
Turing, think you're easily fooled. :/

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