Was that true in all the versions he published? I read the second version of the test and wasn't sure if he meant the computer was trying to imitate a woman, or just fool the judge that it was a person. It seems a bit bizarre to have the judge trying to work out if it's a woman or a man or a computer, rather than whether it's a person or a computer!
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. > > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
