"Wesley R. Elsberry" wrote:
> Ivar Ylvisaker wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> IY>Actually, if I had to define intelligence, I'd start with
> IY>language. If I or someone can talk with an object, then it
> IY>seems reasonable to define the object as intelligent. This
> IY>was Turing's definition of an intelligent machine.
>
> [...]
>
> No, it wasn't. Turing was looking at the problem of
> establishing that a machine is intelligent. He came up with a
> *sufficient*, though not *necessary*, condition under which we
> would have to admit such.
>
> The other amusing thing about Turing's original paper is that he
> never explicitly changed the rules of the game from a gender
> discrimination task when he substituted in a machine for one of
> the participants.
Turing's original paper is available here:
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/test.html
Ivar
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