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From: josh@topaz.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: "Eliza-like" people stories
Message-ID: <15621@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 14:18:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.15621
Posted: Thu Oct 15 14:18:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 08:44:09 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: artificial intelligence, natural stupidity


I'm doing a paper on the relation of human conscious processes to
those of AI programs.  I'm looking for stories which illustrate the
extent to which apparent human intelligence may actually consist of
Eliza-like verisimilitude.  Example:
    
	Customer: I'd like to return this pair of shoes.  They're
		  both left shoes and one is two sizes smaller than
		  the other.
	Clerk: We don't take returns.  How do we know you haven't 
	       worn them?
[from Reader's Digest]

Please send stories to me rather than the net... 

--JoSH