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McKinstry’s 1994 message proposes that evolved virtual intelligences could interact with people and evolve further. Copy claim link
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Date 1994-12-29 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Evolutionary selection and further interaction, not a system improving its own capacity to improve. Scope and limits Not recursive self-improvement.
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Usefulness of the Turing Test (Usenet message) ↗ comp.ai (Usenet) · 1994-12-29
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Paraphrase Evolving systems selected by a conversational fitness function could go on evolving after meeting people.
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Source details and check notes Authors Christopher McKinstry Version Archive member 95_01_07/26127 of 95_01_07.tgz, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the pre-1996 candidate search. The header date is as preserved; there is no independent capture of the message. CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository archive. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Christopher McKinstry, "Usefulness of the Turing Test", comp.ai, 1994-12-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Paraphrase checked against the archive member. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Date header Thu, 29 Dec 1994 04:09:32, without a time zone; the archive file name is a later collection date.
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