<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Yeah, and superhuman abilities are one thing that I, as a Turing Tester, would use to identify the computer. :-)</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave </div></font></span>I would quote some limericks to it and see what happens. Or double entendres. Or ask it to compute the square root of zero. bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:40 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:08 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><font size="2"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>Isn't the Turing test just whether people can tell it's a person or a computer?</font></i></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2">Yes.</font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Actually, it's supposed to be a person determining which of two entities it's interacting with is a computer. </div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div><i>It seems to this psychologist that that is a very low bar to get over. People believe what they want to believe and are easily fooled.</i> <br></font></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><font size="2">But in this case the people didn't even know they were in a test, they just assumed they were talking to a human. And the machine did a better job making a reservation to the Chinese restaurant than I could have done; with the thick accent and elliptical phrasing I had great difficulty understanding what the human was trying to say, but obviously to the computer it was clear as a bell. </font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>That's not a Turing Test at all. The tester has to be actively trying to make that determination.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <font size="2"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">><i> </i></div><i>I'd like to see a more meaningful test.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Like what? All Turing is saying is that we should judge how intelligence a computer is the same way we judge the intelligence of other people, by behavior. And I have to say that in this case the computer demonstrated more intelligence than I have because I would have been constantly saying "I don't understand what you're saying please repeat it". <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Yeah, and superhuman abilities are one thing that I, as a Turing Tester, would use to identify the computer. :-)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave </div></font></span></div></div>
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