On 12 June 2014 08:22, <ghib...@gmail.com> 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 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.
