Reversal of Real and Control Subjects
When a Turing test is applied to a mixed group of human and computer subjects, the computers are the nominal subjects. However, the humans are judged in exactly the same way, and so their Turing test scores can also be calculated.
This is another way of viewing the situation described in the previous section.
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