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Subject: Turing Test; Parry, Eliza, and Flamer
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 17:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 17:37:00 1983
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From:  Jay <JAY@USC-ECLC>

Parry and Eliza are fairly famous early AI projects.  One acts
paranoid, another acts like an interested analyst.  How about reviving
the project and challenging the Turing test?  Flamer is born.

Flamer would read messages from the net and then reply to the 
sender/bboard denying all the person said, insulting him, and in 
general making unsupported statements.  I suggest some researchers out
there make such a program and put it on the net.  The goal would be 
for the readers of the net try to detect the Flamer, and for Flamer to
escape detection.  If the Flamer is not discovered, then it could be 
considered to have passed the Turing test.

Flamer has the advantage of being able to take a few days in 
formulating a reply; it could consult many related online sources, it
could request information concerning the subject from experts (human,
or otherwise), it could perform statistical analysis of other flames
to make appropriate word choices, it could make common errors 
(gramical, syntactical, or styleistical), and it could perform other 
complex computations.

Perhaps Flamer is already out there, and perhaps this message is 
generated by such a program.

j'