On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote:
> I don't really find the Turing Test that meaningful, to be honest. > I am certain that in your like you have met some people that you consider brilliant and some that are as dumb as a sack full of doorknobs, if it's not the Turing test how did you differentiate the geniuses from the imbeciles? > I find it a much more worthwhile endeavour to create a machine that can > understand what we mean And the only way you can tell if a machine (or another human being) understands what you mean or not is by observing the subsequent behavior. > like a human does, without the need to convince us that it has human > emotions Some humans are VERY good at convincing other humans that they have certain emotions when they really don't, like actors or con-men; evolution has determined that skillful lying can be useful. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
