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- From: colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Kenneth Colby)
- Subject: Reply to Ginsberg, Blenko, Whedon RE Loebner Test
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:23:39 GMT
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- Ginsberg opines that the Loebner test is a joke and does not contribute
- in any way to machine progress on AI's "real goals".
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- Who legislates AI's "real goals"?
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- I quote Heinz Pagels "The Dreams of Reason: THe Computer and the Rise
- of the Sciences of Complexity", 1988, p.91 "The computer, at every moment of
- its operation obeying well-defined rules, would respond to some intelligent
- input with an intelligent output. Could one have a spontaneous and
- stimulating conversation with it? No one has built a machine or designed
- a program that has come close to this capability."
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- Some people in AI want to build a thinker. We are building a talker, an
- entity that one can have an interesting and meaning-sensitive conversations
- with, perhaps confiding thoughts and feelings to it one would not express
- to a human (thus making it a new type of talker).
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- In my view, building a computer conversationalist companion is a legitimate goal
- of AI and the Loebner competition encourages work in that direction. No
- program could pass a completely unrestricted Turing test anymore than a
- human could. No single human has all the knowledge of all the domains
- of all the humans in the world.
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- >Ken Colby - Malibu Artifactual Intelligence Works
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