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From: mmt@client1.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Defining Machine Intelligence.
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Date: 13 Dec 88 22:37:34 GMT
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>I would be convinced if, upon acquiring language skills, the intelligent
>machine unexpectedly uttered the assertion, "I am."
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>--Barry Kort

Careful with your committments, there.  In 1956 I was working on a computer
programmed to play checkers (yes, with graphics), which was supposed to
type out its communications such as "Your Move", "You have two minutes
to move"  "If you do not move within one minute, I shall claim the game."
One day, the teletype line became noisy, and in the midst of plenty of
cartoon-type swearing (#$$8N%#...etc), it said "Od's blood I shall claim
the game."  A little earlier, it had said "Swounds".  Would you be
convinced it was acquiring a mediaeval intelligence?
-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@zorac.arpa ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
If the universe transcends formal methods, it might be interesting.
     (Steven Ryan).