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From: cpshelley@violet.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: MORE THOUGHTS ON THE TURING TEST AND NATURAL LANGUAGE
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 13:01:24 GMT
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In article <9105300027.AA15172@lilac.berkeley.edu> ISSSSM@NUSVM.BITNET (Stephen Smoliar) writes:
>I find this approach potentially interesting.  For one thing, these
>"directives" may be viewed as playing a role similar to the agents
>in a Minsky-like society of mind.  If this project can be pulled off,
>it may stand as a first concrete attempt to implement such a society,
>in which case we may learn some things about putting Minsky's approach
>into action for some other applications.  

Sounds like a good topic for discussion.  Perhaps Minsky would like to
make some comments at this point?  I kind of like maximization too, as
I (and cohorts) are submitting a paper to IJCAI about maximizing the
effect of generated text with `register theory' by inserting `register'
planning operators into the rest of the planning mechanism.  (Anyone
in IJCAI listening?  Plug, plug... :-)

>(By the way, at the risk of
>sounding ignorant, did you, by any chance mean WILENSKY?  The only Smolensky
>I know of is Paul, who is primarily involved with connectionism.)

Paul?  Rats!  I knew these "sky's" would be the end of me.  It is in fact
Paul Smolensky---involved with connectionism.