March 12, 2005

The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation

CHRIS: If you could ask a computer just one question in the Turing test, what would it be?

SANDY: Uhmm....

PAT: How about "If you could ask a computer just one question in the Turing test, what would it be?"?

(From The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett)