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http://www.pulsethebook.com [Pulse] As support for their claims, Minsky, Papert, and the other champions of classical AI pointed to how well Eliza and similar “expert systems” were doing in the Turing test. That was something suggested in 1950 by famed mathematician Alan Turing, who first conceived what would become the modern computer.

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[Scottaaronson.com] Shtetl-Optimized: Alan Turing, moralist: Re Halpern's argument that a machine that passes the "Turing test" might not be truly capable of thought: As I read Halpern's piece, this is not a moral judgment, but a criticism of the efficacy of the test in answering the question of whether one is dealing with intelligence - or to put it more simply, it's at least in part intended to be a discussion of the Chinese room problem. (Halpern doesn't help himself by raising the Chinese room problem explicitly only after he's already spent several paragraphs putting forth the problem with considerably less precision than Searle.)

http://weblogs.asp.net [Weblogs.asp.net] Turing, Eliza and IM agents: test to find out whether a computer was intelligent: make a human talk to several "people", if the human can't tell whether she's talking to a human or a machine then the computer is intelligent (or at least silly in a convincingly human way). In the 60's, several programs were written so they could interact with a human through a screen and a keyboard (a chat, basically), one of the most popular implementations was Eliza which played the role of a psychologist asking you questions, although it was a very simple program (in fact, it didn't have any intelligence -artificial or natural- whatsoever), it was very good at deceiving people at least during the first interactions.

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