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- From: ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg)
- Subject: Re: Loebner Turing test for Human like conversation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.231937.29963@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: Loebner, turing, natural language
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov5.212849.7986@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:19:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.212849.7986@cs.ucla.edu> colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
- (Kenneth Colby) writes:
-
- >Does anyone have any comments, criticisms, or suggestions about the article
- >or the [Loebner] competition.
-
- In my (humble?) opinion, the Loebner test is a joke. The whole
- *point* of the Turing test, and the reason it is interesting, is that
- the domain of interaction between the human and the machine is not
- restricted. By adding an artificial restriction, Loebner (or whoever
- else is responsible) misses the point entirely.
-
- I see no reason to believe that success at the Loebner test is in any
- way related to making progress on AI's real goals. So here we are,
- continuing AI's established tradition of generating a tremendous
- amount of publicity while making no real progress. No wonder the
- funding agencies are sick of us.
-
- Matt Ginsberg
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