days of wine and roses: Are we talking about the simpsons or unreal?

October 1, 2006

Are we talking about the simpsons or unreal?

Ever since learning about it, I've had a fondness for the Turing Test. So ideas like How to Pass the Turing Test always strike me as misguided, in part because I agree with Dennett: even if you can imagine systems which can meet the challenge without also meeting our standards of intelligence, these would be as unlikely as actually intelligent systems trained to perform the same task, and aren't those more interesting anyway? And also because attempts by systems to fool a judge always result in performances like this Loebner prize winner. (For comparison, here's what the human said. Loebner links courtesy of Adam, who should blog more.)

Posted by tony at October 1, 2006 5:36 PM

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It's true. I'm sure you could pick some relatively small collection of words (25? 100? You wouldn't need nearly 1,000), with a very simple grammar, and show that all of the conversations possible in only that language would, if generated beforehand, require that every atom in the observable universe be used as a storage device several times over.

Posted by: todd. at October 2, 2006 7:49 PM