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Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 19:13:55 EDT
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Kilobaud magazine (now Microcomputing) ran an article ~5 years ago on ai and
"humanlike conversation" in which the author concluded that humanlike dialog
had little to do with intelligence, artificial or genuine.  To accurately
simulate human dialog required, among other things, WOM (write only memory)
which was used to store anything not of direct immediate interest to the
speaker.  You could do a pretty good simulation of Eddy Murphie on the other
end of a Turing test with a very simple algorithm.

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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