On 10 June 2014 10:07, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 6/9/2014 2:37 PM, LizR wrote: > > PPS those transcripts are hilarious, how could anyone be fooled? I mean > maybe if you had no idea there was a possibility of it being a computer, > just maybe ....but you'd definitely think you had someone autistic. > > PPPS were the judges also computers? Just asking. Some *people *couldn't > pass the Turing Test. > > Although it's never mentioned anymore, the actual test that Turing > proposed was that a man and a computer would each pretend to be a woman in > a conversation with the judge. If the computer could fool the judges as > well as the man could, that would be a mark of intelligence. The test was > perhaps indicative of Turing's thoughts about sexual identity. >
That was the original test, yes. However my esteemed friend Wikipaedia suggests that Turing later turned this into the final version we now know and love... > The second version appeared later in Turing's 1950 paper. Similar to the > Original Imitation Game Test, the role of player A is performed by a > computer. However, the role of player B is performed by a man rather than a > woman. > > "Let us fix our attention on one particular digital computer *C.* Is it > true that by modifying this computer to have an adequate storage, suitably > increasing its speed of action, and providing it with an appropriate > programme, *C* can be made to play satisfactorily the part of A in the > imitation game, the part of B being taken by a man?" > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#cite_note-FOOTNOTETuring1950434-21> > > In this version, both player A (the computer) and player B are trying to > trick the interrogator into making an incorrect decision. > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
