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From: cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Congratulations! You passed the Turing test
Message-ID: <442@edai.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Jun 89 19:27:36 GMT
References: <614432788.987@minster.york.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cam@edai (Chris Malcolm)
Organization: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
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In article <614432788.987@minster.york.ac.uk> russell@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>In article <423@edai.ed.ac.uk> Chris Malcolm writes
>
>>Koestler's analysis of humour suggests that you might not be
>>able to build an intelligent robot without _necessarily_ equipping it with
>>a sense of humour.
>
>Can this really be the case?  A reading of this group would suggest that 
>intelligent people can exist *without* a sense of humour.....
>

Don't forget that some of the contributirs to this group are machines :-)



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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK