On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 20:28, Richard Hoskins wrote: > David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> writes: > > > The Turing test (Alan Turing) is, simply put, a test to see if one > > can pick the the machine from among several human conversationalists > > in a blind encounter (Conversing via IM or a chat room). > > Was Turing on AIM or ICQ? > Probably whatever the most popular IM client was prior to 1954 ;o) -davidc