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Nov 3, 2014 at 15:39 comment added outis nihil I should clarify what I meant by "any" human judge: the machine needs to fool whatever judge can be thought of. So in a way, a Turing test is a falsifiability test: the test only halts on failure.
Nov 1, 2014 at 8:50 comment added john_leo @outisnihil Thanks. I'll gladly add an answer with Turing's original definitions later this day.
Oct 31, 2014 at 20:32 comment added outis nihil I'd recommend that @john_leo post this as an answer, because it is in fact the answer: the Turing Test is defined in that paper. All that aside, I suspect that what Turing had in mind was that a program that could fool any human judge, with the human judge allowed to ask any questions whatsoever, are fair game. Now, that doesn't mean that a wrong answer to "air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow" would mean that the program wasn't intelligent.
Oct 31, 2014 at 16:29 answer added vzn timeline score: 1
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Oct 31, 2014 at 10:52 history edited John Demetriou
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Oct 31, 2014 at 10:46 comment added john_leo I recommend reading Turing's original article, where he defined his test: Computing Machinery and Intelligence. It's from 1950, but could as well be from now.
Oct 31, 2014 at 10:30 answer added Hoopje timeline score: 10
Oct 31, 2014 at 9:25 history edited John Demetriou CC BY-SA 3.0
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