jeff@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Bishop) (05/03/84)
<> Do you suppose that when enough connections are made, the UUCP network will spontaneously develop intelligence? Jeff Bishop || University of Chicago ...ihnp4!oddjob!jeff || Astrology & Astrophysics Center
ado@elsie.UUCP (05/03/84)
> Do you suppose that when enough connections are made, the > UUCP network will spontaneously develop intelligence? > Jeff Bishop || University of Chicago > ...ihnp4!oddjob!jeff || Astrology & Astrophysics Center If you limit yourself to the universe of posted articles, the UUCP network could already pass the Turing test.
jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (05/04/84)
From: jeff@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Bishop) > Do you suppose that when enough connections are made, the > UUCP network will spontaneously develop intelligence? Talk about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts! :-) -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb
richard@sequent.UUCP (05/05/84)
>> Do you suppose that when enough connections are made, the UUCP >> network will spontaneously develop intelligence? >> >> Jeff Bishop || University of Chicago >> ...ihnp4!oddjob!jeff || Astrology & Astrophysics Center Perhaps it already has. Maybe that's what keeps eating all those first lines, and regurgitating the weeks-old news. ___________________________________________________________________________ The preceding should not to be construed as the statement or opinion of the employers or associates of the author. It might not even be the author's. I try to make a point of protecting the innocent, but none of them can be found... ...!sequent!richard
lwe3207@acf4.UUCP (05/10/84)
Nf-From: acf4!lwe3207 May 4 10:50:00 1984 [] >> Do you suppose that when enough connections are made, the >> UUCP network will spontaneously develop intelligence? >> Jeff Bishop || University of Chicago >> ...ihnp4!oddjob!jeff || Astrology & Astrophysics Center > >If you limit yourself to the universe of posted articles, >the UUCP network could already pass the Turing test. Oh really? When's the last time you read net.jokes.d?
minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (05/12/84)
An earlier discussion of this topic may be found in the story "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney (The New Yorker, 1940) reprinted in The World of Mathematics, Vol. 4, pp. 2262-2267. Martin Minow decvax!minow