[comp.ai] "Eliza-like" people stories

josh@topaz.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) (10/15/87)

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

roller@vertigo.UUCP (P.MICHAELIS) (10/16/87)

> 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