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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people
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Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 13:24:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 13:24:53 1984
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Someone took issue with a recent posting I made:

>From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Tue Jul 10 10:38:42 1984
>>  ...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
> ...

From the kidding tone of the rest of my posting, I assumed the :-) was
quite unnecessary.  Evidently I was wrong.  So I retract my insult
to Messrs Turing and Murphy, and suggest that a simple algorithm could
substitute for "Cheech" Marin.  OK, what about Marcel Marceau...

:-) :-) :-)  <-- Please note!!

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