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Should a computer be more like a man? At one point in My Fair Lady, Henry Higgins cries out in exasperation: “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” Higgins, as you may recall, was an expert linguist who had taken on the seemingly impossible task of transforming an uneducated Cockney flower girl into a very proper high society lady. The task was a close analogue to the classical Turing test. The requirement was really that Higgins’ protégé successfully simulate the behavior of a high society lady such that no observer would suspect otherwise.
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Charness, N. (1983). Human chess skill. In: Frey, P.W. (eds) Chess Skill in Man and Machine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5515-4_2
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