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? > > -D
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) -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
