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>From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: How do computers fare on scholastic achievement tests?
Message-ID: <1992Aug1.043850.6642@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Date: 1 Aug 92 04:38:50 GMT
References: <1992Jul22.204427.7681@techbook.com>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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In article <1992Jul22.204427.7681@techbook.com> szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo) writes:

: be fooled.  On the other hand, I challenge any computer to a
: contest on the SAT test.  I suggest that no computer can score
: better than 500 on the verbal and 700 on the math (and even that
: would take massive amounts of real-world knowledge programmming), unless 
: they have a crib sheet programmed in.
Are you testing intelligence of knowledge? 
The crib sheet knowledge can be programmed in, and once it is programmed in,
we can duplicate it ad infinitum, unlike humans.

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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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