On 10 June 2014 10:07, meekerdb <[email protected]> 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 [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/d/optout.
