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[Dr Bob Jansen]

Jan,

Likewise I have questions. No doubt though, fooling the panel is a great achievement but pretending to be a non native english speaker seems like a work around. After all, did Turing imply the judges and subject had to both be native speakers of whatever language was being used?

As you say, there did not seem to be a control but the difficulty here is how knowledgeable the control would be. 

Still, a major achievement.

Bobj

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> On 9 Jun 2014, at 9:04, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, this seems possible, but I'd like to see how an unknown set of 
> questions from a panel would determine that this was or wasn't a real 
> 13 y.o. boy. Anyone have more detail on how this test was actually 
> conducted? According to the article, they test 3 machines. That means 
> there wasn't a control -- e.g. a REAL 13 yo boy.
> 
>      http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/08/super-computer-simulates-13-year-old-boy-passes-turing-test
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