G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) (12/04/90)
The original basis for the Turing test was to see if it was possible
to distinguish, purely from a text, whether you were talking to a man
or woman. The extension of this, the Turing test itself, seeks to give
a criterion for deciding on whether or not an intelligent system is
"truly intelligent". A human asks questions and receives answers in
textual form. (S)he then has to decide if it is a machine behind the
screen or not.
Now, supposing a system has been built which "passes" the test. Why
not take the process one stage further? Why not try to design an
intelligent system which can decide whether *it* is talking to machine
or not?
Gordon.
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