Re: Turing Test Meaningless?

[z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman)]

Morten Lauritsen (moffe@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:
: Thus spake dobrzele@cvm.msu.edu (Joel C. Dobrzelewski):

: >---------- conclusion ----------

: >This (the Turing Test) is meaningless, in my opinion.  I think we need a new 
: >test.  What do you think??

: I think the Turing Test is an interesting idea, and great fun at parties, but
: you are right, it has fundamental flaws. Still, When Turing thought of it, it
: was a stroke of genius. It has caused much speculation and drawn attention to
: the field of AI.

: A flaw in the TT is that it only deals with human intelligence. A martian would
: have a hard time convincing anybody that it is really human. A very intelligent
: discussion of the definition of intelligence has been written by Wei Pang
: (wince - I think). I can look up the reference if you want. It is available by
: www.

: The nature of intelligence makes it very hard to determine whether something is
: intelligent or not.

: "If the human mind was so simple that we could understand it, we would
: be too simple to understand it." - Pat Bahn

: One way of putting it.

: 					Morten.
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: 8220 Brabrand          | at the University of Aarhus
: Denmark, Europe        | Email: moffe@daimi.aau.dk Web: www.daimi.aau.dk/~moffe

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"...the nature of intelligence makes it very hard to
	determine whether something is intelligent or not..."

	what if it can beat the pants off you at chess?
		
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Ralph Silverman
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Ralph Silverman
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