From: Al Villalobos (al.villalobos@qm.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 12:19:06 MDT
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From: Reason [mailto:reason@exratio.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:40 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: RE: Infanticide and Extropy
Let me see now:
* Take a starting point of defining a human being as being the set of
average performers out of a large group of people.
* Circularly define humans as being something that can pass a Turing Test
conducted by another human.
* Most young children are not human.
[remainder deleted]
Its been quite a while since a discussion of the Turing Test has come along
and after reading this I began to think of some sort of graduated turing
test. How about persons scoring at the 50% percentile of a standard IQ test
at various ages, say 5,7,10,13,17,25?
My hunch is that current software could win at the 5 year old level, at
least.
Wouldn't it great to say that we have a program as smart as an average 5
year old human?
Lets face it, I doubt the judges of the various Turing Tests held are at the
50% percentile of IQ, which, to us, would seem a tad mmmm.. slow?.. or
perhaps "less sharp" would be a better way of putting it.
AL
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