On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:15:16PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: | 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? | | 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)
I see. Thanks.
-D
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