On 12 June 2014 08:22, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, June 9, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: >> >> The TT has been so watered down that it doesn't prove anything except >> that a glorified version of ELIZA can fool some of the people some of the >> time. >> > > If the TT has been watered down, then the first question for me would be > "doesn't this logically pre-assume a set of explicit standards existed in > the first place"? > > Yes it does. I may be wrong, but my impression has always been that Turing imagined a computer able to imitate a "generalised" human being, not one with some very narrow and specific limitations (e.g. an autistic chess master).
But when I asked my computer if it could manage that, it said "I'm afraid I can't do that, Liz." Also it refuses to open the front door, so I'm stuck in the garage. -- 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.
