Hi, "machines" with a goal to pass Turing test are actually software rather than machine on their own. There were made some interesting experiment. Maybe the most famous is the program Eliza (or Elisa? Don't remember exactly) which could lead a conversation of moderate complexity. Another approach of this kind are conversating robots on chat rooms. Here in Hungary some guys made such one to prove young people have a so simple conversation mood and theasurus that this kind of behavior could be also mimic by a simple software. The proof was successfull that the program passed this kind of Turing test because of none has discovered it is not a real person. I heard also English police uses another but similar bot to catch child pornography involved person (I hope I use the correct wording). It is rather a kind of pitfall but again with a (maybe unintended) goal to pass the Turing test. Regards, Imre On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jason S wrote: > I don't think there is a specific name for a machine that can pass the > Turing Test. Since no such machine exists yet, the name is probably > reserved for the first person who can create one. > > Jason > > > > From: "Howard Winter" > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:21 PM > > > > Ah, you could be right - I have always thought that a Turing Machine was > one which passed the Turing Test. I > > believe the thing you're talking about was what Alan Turing called a > "Universal Computing Machine", and which > > has since been known as a Turing Machine. So it looks like you're right > and the thread is wrong! :-) > > > > So, what *is* something that passes the Turing Test called? > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics