From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!bhayes
Newsgroups: net.ai
Title: Re: netnews and the turing test - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5512
Posted: Wed Apr 20 03:00:51 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 02:29:38 1983

#R:uwvax:-81900:sri-unix:15500001:000:597
sri-unix!bhayes    Apr 14 08:56:00 1983

Back at Dartmouth, there was a spate of CB-radio-like talk programs.
Many people could run the program, and send messages to one another
in realish time.  There was also a lisp program that had a database
of sentences, and would use these to build new sentences.  The lisp
program was fairly stupid, and knew nothing of semantics or syntax.

One day, someone hooked the lisp program into the talk program.
Whenever someone would send a message, it would get entered into
the database, and a senetence would be generated.  People thought it
was a weird human, but a human none the less....
 -barry