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- From: bombman@diku.dk (Hans-Henrik St{rfeldt)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.misc,rec.games.mud.admin,rec.games.frp.misc,rec.games.int-fiction
- Subject: Re: Rumor has it...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.143152.18968@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 14:31:52 GMT
- References: <C1IDLH.EAt@news.chalmers.se> <1993Jan27.173505.12915@aston.ac.uk>
- Sender: bombman@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim) writes:
-
- >Personally, I was impressed by the fact that the NPCs will use
- >"Artificial Intelligence"... I was under the impression that
- >this wasn't currently possible. I believe that there's a standing
- >prize put forward by someone in the states (in the order of 10,000?
- >not sure...) for the first machine intelligence to pass a Turing
- >test. Most of my AI lecturers, and the few text books I've read
- >seem to think that it's not going to happen in the near future.
- >Okay, so I'm being pedantic; the poster evidently meant AI techniques
- >designed to make things more believable (sp?) rather than convincing
- >people that an NPC was actually a human being. If so, it could be
- >interesting to see how well they do... if not, then I'm sure they
- >could get government sponsorship, unless they're just blowing hot
- >air :). All IMHO, of course...
- Maybe he ment that the NPC's react logically, as programmed with
- triggers etc. I'm sure. if you ask them how you should tell your
- girlfrend that you love her, they'd do nothing at all...........
- Maybe just say 'I know little about this' or some ELIZA reaction.
-
- --HHS
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