trent@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Ray Trent) (11/13/86)
A couple of things: 1) I've always been somewhat suspicious about the Turing Test. (1/2 :-) a) does anyone out there have any good references regarding its shortcomings. :-| b) Imagine this scenario: AI researchers succeed far beyond their wildest dreams; create machine orders of magnitude *more* intelligent than human beings. Turing test fails because people always think the human is the machine...and vice versa... :-) c) Imagine *this* scenario: AI researchers succeed *to* the level of their wildest dreams. What if the machine doesn't *want* humans to think it is artificially intelligent...shouldn't be *too* hard to fake, eh? (1/2 :-) d) Yes, this probably belongs in net.jokes...but I *am* interested in part a). 2) Has anyone else noted that a large majority of articles posted to one of these groups (comp.ai, comp.cog.eng) are also posted to the other. (regardless of whether the 2 groups are "supposed" to be for different purposes or not) What is the rationale for having 2 groups? (I'm merely curious) -- "A journey of a thousand miles..." ../ray\.. (trent@csvax.caltech.edu, rat@caltech.bitnet, ...seismo!cit-vax!trent)