Re: The Turing test tells us nothing really.


<rick_sobie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/Turing_test.html
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> Oh yes it can quack like a duck, but can it fly?

It flies like a helicopter, but can it quack like a bee?
The Turing test isn't "does the machine has blood?",
it is "does the machine reproduce a realistic person?"
A TV passes the Turing test, it reproduces the real
Mona Lisa as well as the portrait reproduces her.




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> People misidentify things constantly. I mean one need only look at any
> of the websites portending that the miriad of lights in the sky are
> little green men.
>
> case in point:
>
> Examine closely this slide of Aitken basin on the moon, and to the
> untrained eye, it looks like a death star. (An upside down one with a
> titanium hull) and even go so far as to examine the hi res image, and
> examine the legend, and the use of the colors within the legend, and
> notice also that the site is an official site, from a prestigious
> organization which has numerous PhDs on staff, who dilligently guard
> their public image and who would never put out a graph of this sort
> without scrutiny regarding its accuracy.
>
> Here is the slide
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/clem2nd/slide_26.html
>
> here are their credentials
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/sci_staff.shtml
>
> So you see my point is simply this, the moon is a spaceship, and yet
> daily, people are misidentifying it as a big ball of rock, just
> floating there mind you, in the sky!
>
> It is passing the Turing test, as a ball of rock.

"Spaceship Earth".
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=SpaceshipEarthAttractionPage&bhcp=1
Der alte Hexenmeister.


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