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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 10:38:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 10:38:42 1984
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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.  
>  ...You could do a pretty good simulation of Eddy Murphie on the other
>  end of a Turing test with a very simple algorithm.

Anyone who believes this either doesn't understand the Turing test or has
a very low opinion of his own intelligence.  Are you seriously claiming
that YOU would NOT BE ABLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE between Eddie Murphy and
a "very simple algorithm" if you were connected to both by a terminal and
you could ask them about ANYTHING YOU LIKE for AS LONG AS YOU WANT?

You have to assume, of course, that the real Eddie Murphy is being helpful
and is not trying to emulate a "very simple algorithm."  This is also one
of the conditions in the original test.
-- 

Dave Seaman			"My hovercraft is full of eels."
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