trent@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Ray Trent) (11/13/86)
A couple of things:
1) I've always been somewhat suspicious about the Turing Test. (1/2 :-)
a) does anyone out there have any good references regarding
its shortcomings. :-|
b) Imagine this scenario: AI researchers succeed far beyond their
wildest dreams; create machine orders of magnitude *more*
intelligent than human beings. Turing test fails because
people always think the human is the machine...and vice versa... :-)
c) Imagine *this* scenario: AI researchers succeed *to* the level
of their wildest dreams. What if the machine doesn't *want*
humans to think it is artificially intelligent...shouldn't be
*too* hard to fake, eh? (1/2 :-)
d) Yes, this probably belongs in net.jokes...but I *am* interested
in part a).
2) Has anyone else noted that a large majority of articles posted
to one of these groups (comp.ai, comp.cog.eng) are also posted
to the other. (regardless of whether the 2 groups are "supposed"
to be for different purposes or not) What is the rationale for
having 2 groups? (I'm merely curious)
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"A journey of a thousand miles..."
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