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From: roller@vertigo.UUCP (P.MICHAELIS)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: "Eliza-like" people stories
Message-ID: <170@vertigo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 10:00:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: vertigo.170
Posted: Fri Oct 16 10:00:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 23:57:35 EDT
References: <15621@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Holmdel, N.J.
Lines: 16
Keywords: artificial intelligence, natural stupidity
Summary: A true story  (I was there)

> 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.

I know this looks like a portion of a "M*A*S*H" script, but it really
did happen this way:

YOUNG, OVERWORKED DOCTOR:  Why have you come to the hospital?

RECENTLY WOUNDED SOLDIER:  Shrapnel wounds, sir.

YOUNG, OVERWORKED DOCTOR:  How long have you been noticing these symptoms?


-- Paul Michaelis             {AT&T Spine}!vertigo!roller