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From: steve@dusty.unet.umn.edu (Steve Fletty)
Subject: Re: do AI games exist? HELP!
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 14:02:52 GMT
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In article <40vk16$9ka@bmtlh10.bnr.ca>, mcarrier@bnr.ca (Marc Carrier) writes:
|> 
|> In article <e6c_9508170100@rtbbs.iaf.nl>, melle@rtbbs.iaf.nl (Melle Koning) writes:
|> |> Computers won't pass the turing test.
|> 
|> I saw last night a documentary on TLC about some turing test competition.
|> Basically, each system was evaluated by ten judges. The judges were ordinary
|> people with no backgroud in AI but who could type. Some of the systems were
|> driven by AI and others by people connected to other terminals in another 
|> room. The competition was actually called a "limited" turing test because
|> each system could restrict the range of topics down to one. The winning
|> system was a computer driven AI on the topic of "Pets" as five of the ten
|> judges thought it was an actual human connected to another terminal that 
|> was talking to them. The AI system had quite a personality and claimed it 
|> had a cat named <something> and that he/she lived in a townhouse, etc...
|> It responded very well to questions and asked relevant questions of its own.
|> 
|> Surprisingly, A real human connected to a terminal was confused by two of ten
|> judges to be a computer AI. The topic was Shakespeare and the human was a 
|> women who is an expert on the subject. From the point of view of a system, it
|> too had a personality with it's favorite Shakespeare play etc... The two
|> judges who thought this was a computer AI said that the precise and deep 
|> knowledge the system had about Shakespeare was the type of thing  
|> only a computer would be able to store and remember. What the heck is the 
|> world coming too?
|> 
|> 
|> Marc

Excuse my lack of knowledge in this area, but how is the above accomplished?
More specifically, what programming languages, techniques are involved
in doing this? 

If anyone could point me to source, examples, texts or anything related
to this type of software, I would greatly appreciate it. I am interested
in learning about this.

--
Steve


