Usefulness of the Turing Test
A message by Christopher McKinstry to comp.ai dated 29 December 1994.
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- Usefulness of the Turing Test (Usenet message) comp.ai (Usenet) · published 1994-12-29 · 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.
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