On 1 February 2015 at 13:59, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:24 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I must admit I have never been able to see much point in the TT, >> > > So if it's not behavior how do you tell the difference between smart > people and stupid people? > > In that case it's behaviour. But Turing's question was "can a machine think?" and I don't see that the TT can give a definite answer. To quote the film (roughly), a machine will not think like a person does, so trying to see whether the machine can fool you into thinking it's a person isn't telling you anything terribly useful, or at least nothing useful about whether the machine is thinking. (As we know, ELIZA can fool people into thinking it's thinking, while other people don't see becoming chess champion of the world as proof of thought.) -- 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.
