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Michie’s essay says a conversational program can seem to understand by answering keywords with stock phrases, and calls for refining the intelligence test rather than accepting such apparent understanding as sufficient evidence. Copy claim link
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Date 1968 · publication Wording attested 1986. Wording checked in the reprint, chapter 20 of On Machine Intelligence, 2nd edition (1986). The author says little was revised; the 1968 text was not compared. Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Concerns what a system is, not how it will behave later. The reported share of people taken in is not reproduced here. The wording was checked in the 1986 reprint.
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On Machine Intelligence, second edition (chapter 20, "Computer—servant or master") ↗ Ellis Horwood · 1986
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Paraphrase A conversational program can appear to understand by responding to keywords with stock phrases; Michie therefore calls for a refined intelligence test instead of treating that appearance as sufficient evidence.
Location in source Chapter 20, "Turing’s Test", printed pp. 241–242 (PDF pages 246–247), the DOCTOR example and the explanation after it
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Source details and check notes Authors Donald Michie Version Scan of the 1986 second edition hosted by gwern.net; imprint page and chapter 20 read by the pre-1996 candidate search. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Donald Michie, On Machine Intelligence, 2nd edn (Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1986), chapter 20. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the inspected scan is a third-party copy whose permission to host is not established. Phrases in quotation marks inside a paraphrase identify the source's wording. Check notes Paraphrase from the pre-1996 candidate search, whose inspection a later machine check retained; not re-read for this collection. 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. Year of first publication in Theoria to Theory 2, pp. 242–249, as given in the 1986 reprint’s acknowledgements; the 1968 pages were not retrieved.
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