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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
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Date: 16 May 91 15:35:34 GMT
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In article <2200@seti.inria.fr>  ziane@nuri.inria.fr (ziane mikal @)
>> In article <1991May13.133711.102@athena.mit.edu> mlevin@jade.tufts.edu writes:
>> 
>> > ...
>> > hyperdimensional memory, or something). They then make an enormous
>> > 'game-tree' of all possible conversations in English (taking 
>> > into account randomizing elements, repeat questions,
>> > etc.), and make an idiot box that simply accepts inputs from an
>> > interrogator, and, by direct table look-up, spits out answers, which
>> > are good enough to pass the Turing Test. 
>> > 
>> > Mike Levin
>> 
>> It is reasonable to assume that such a table can be constructed ?
[...]
>> Mikal Ziane (Mikal.Ziane@nuri.inria.fr)

Probably not. Most Gedanken are impossible to carry out in reality,
for example Maxwell's Demon. 

Or a Turing Test.
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