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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
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Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 02:06:28 EDT
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>  Someone took issue with a recent posting I made:
>  
>>>  ...You could do a pretty good simulation of Eddy Murphie on the other
>>>  end of a Turing test with a very simple algorithm.
>  
>  From the kidding tone of the rest of my posting, I assumed the :-) was
>  quite unnecessary.  Evidently I was wrong.... 
>  
>  :-) :-) :-)  <-- Please note!!

It's not so much that I can't find humor in the thought of Eddie Murphy
participating in the Turing Test, but that the following humor was a little
too sophisticated for me on first reading:

>  Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people
>  
>  <>
>  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.  

Now that I can see Kilobaud (or whatever it's called this week) for what it
really is, a humor magazine, maybe I should subscribe.
-- 

Dave Seaman			My hovercraft is no longer full of 
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags		eels (thanks to my confused cat).