Paul Smith wrote:
The Turing Test was a thought experiment, suggested by Alan Turing as a criterion with which to answer the question "Can a computer be intelligent?" (or something similar, anyway).
It's not an actual description of a single historical event with a specific computer.
Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee
-----Original Message----- From: Marie Helweg-Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:51 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Turing test result?
My students are reading Stanovich's How to Think Straight about Psychology. Stanovich describes the Turing proposal (end of Chp 3) and the basic test: Can a human communicating with a computer and communicating with a human being (in another room) tell who is the computer and who is the human? However, Stanovich never reveals the result of the Turing test. So did the test show that people could not reliably tell who the computer was and who the human was?
On a related note, what is the current state of AI on this issue? Can humans in general be fooled into thinking computers are human?
Marie
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