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Subject: Re: Turing Test is Fatally Flawed

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 16:47:10 11/02/02

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On November 02, 2002 at 18:12:26, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>>: )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )  : )
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>>>Bob D.
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>>That's a Turing Test and there is nothing funny about it IMHO. I don't know how
>>good and professional the "Cheater Cops" at ICC do their job but if you really
>>managed to let everybody believe that your chessengine is a human player of
>>course this would mean that your engine really plays human-like IMHO.
>>
>>Peter
>
>I know the Turing Test is Sacred among AI people.  It is absolutely taboo to say
>anything bad about it.  However, it is fatally flawed!  It falsely assumes that
>the human mind is the ultimate thinking machine.  Typical of the human ego to
>think that!

How has that anything to do with what I posted?

I don't think there is any chessprogram that can really emulate a strong human
chessplayer so that it will fool a reasonable amount of humans at expert level,
that's it. That's all I posted , that's all I wanted to discuss.

>
>As an aside:  Would you say that a lightning bolt did not exist if no one saw or
>heard it?

As I don't even know what a lightning bolt is, that is beyond my abilities.



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