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From: vos@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (E.W.C. de Vos)
Subject: Re: Turing's Playful Games
References: <3k4iub$p8n@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:32:41 GMT
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In article <3k4iub$p8n@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>,
Kenneth Colby <colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>   Turing proposed two imitation games.  In the first, an
>   interrogator tries to decide, based on written replies,
>   which of two people in another room is a man and which
>   is a woman.  In the second game, a computer program
>   substitutes for the man who imitates a woman.  A few
>   points come to mind about the participants:

Not only about the participants. There's been one question which has been
bugging me for months now. It's the Reverse Turing Test.

What if a human cannot determine who is the human. And what if a computer
can.

Does that mean that the computer is more intelligent than a human?

Eelko
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