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From: "Jim Lucas" <jel@danbbs.dk>
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Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle
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"J Thomas" <jethomas@ix.netcom.com> wrote ...
> aph@redhat.invalid wrote:
> > It's easy for a computer realistically to mimic deranged people:
> > Parry, for example.  But the examiner wouldn't believe the program
> > was intelligent.  How would that be a pass?
>
> Did I misunderstand the test?  I thought it was a pass if the examiner
> couldn't tell the conversation was with a human.  I didn't see asnything
> there about rating how smart the human was.

QUESTION 1:  Which of the posts in this thread were generated by humans, and
which were produced by computer programs?

QUESTION 2:  Can anyone write a program that can correctly answer QUESTION 1?
(Would that be an inverse Turing test?)

            /JIm Lucas