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Re:A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home by rbobby on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:40PM (#8930827)
> Just because a computer can pass the turing test, doesn't mean it can spontaneously diagnose your medical problems, design a suspension bridge or play Go.

I think you may have too narrow a view of a turing test. As part of any reasonably tough turing test would be the ability for the test subject to learn something new and apply it.

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Re:A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home by alextgordon on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:15PM (#8931073)
A computer might be able to learn something new. That doesn't mean it'll be particularly good at it.

Our goal is presumably to design computers that can do the specialised jobs that people do. A computer that can pretend to be a novice is not much use in the grand scheme of things.

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