On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:15:16PM -0500, David Clymer wrote:
| On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 14:48, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
| > | Kent writes:
| > | > I stand corrected. And surprised. I really thought they were all
| > | > auto-gens.
| > |
| > | I guess they passed the inverse Turing test.
| >
| > What is the inverse Turing test?
|
| 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). Supposedly, if one
| cannot distinguish a machine from the humans, it can be considered truly
| intelligent.
|
| An inverse Turing test might be to have a bunch of bots post confused
| messages to a mailing list. If one cannot identify the human among them,
| then that individual can be considered truly stupid. :o)
I see. Thanks.
-D
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