TREITEL@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (09/17/83)
From: Richard Treitel <TREITEL@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
It was once playfully proposed to permute the actors in the classical
definition of the Turing test, and thus define an intelligent entity
as one that can tell the difference between a human and a (deceptively
programmed) computer. May have been prompted by the well-known
incident involving Eliza. The result is that, as our AI systems get
better, the standard for intelligence will increase. This definition
may even enable some latter-day Goedel to prove mathematically that
computers can never be intelligent!
- Richard :-)nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley) (10/18/83)
Beware the reversed Turing test. It may also eventually lead to the
conclusion that *humans* are not intelligent!
-kee