Re: What's the common criticism on Turing Test?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Gradwell wrote:
> 
> Yes, but you have to distinguish between capacity to lie and
> willingness to do so. One creature migh be incapable of lying
> simply becaus it is incapable of grasping the concept involved.
> "Deliberately saying something not in accordance with the facts?
> I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Perhaps if you explained again..."
> Such a creature would certainly lack creativity. it wouldn't be
> able e.g. to write novels or plays. But another creature might
> graps the concept perfectly, but decide that it doesn't want to
> participate in such a distasteful activity. If you brand it as
> unintelligent then you are penalising it for taking the high
> moral ground.

I think we are missing the point a bit.  Obviously Turing didn't
envision his test being applied to just any machine with intelligence.
It doesn't make sense to test a bus driving program with the Turing
test, even though it may make intelligent decisions all day having to do
with driving a bus.  

Turing provided us with a test that allows us to determine if we can
create a machine of roughly human intelligence.  If we can't create this
machine then we probably can't create the near human intelligence bus
driver either.

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