[ExI] Off Topic: Turing Test -- ai class at stanford

[Mike Dougherty]

2011/8/30 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> The Turing test measures something which is relevant to social communication
> with humans, but of course does not tell us anything about how intelligent
> the system concerned is in terms of flops or of its performance in the
> execution of other classes of programs.

Right.  Some of us could make the case that others here score very
poorly on the social communication with [normal] humans.  The
disturbing fact about a double-blind Turing test is that people are
sometimes identified as computers.  What does the contrapositive of
the Turing test prove?

Also interesting to note that a computer is considered a highly
successful machine as its number of flops increases, while humans are
considered much less favorably as their number of flops increase.  :)