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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Humongous table-lookup misapprehensions
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Date: 17 Feb 92 12:14:15 GMT
References: <1992Feb14.015016.21990@ida.liu.se> <1992Feb15.041109.18230@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Feb15.211700.13784@ida.liu.se>
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In article <1992Feb15.211700.13784@ida.liu.se> c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (Pontus Gagge) writes:
>Part of the uninterestingness of the table-cheat lies in that it is 
>explicitly limited to passing the Turing Test; it has no capacities 
>for anything else.

In what way is it limited to only passing the Turing Test? What capacities
does it not have?

> Another part lies in that it is a mere copy of its 
>creator's intelligence, and not really an *artificial* intelligence.

I would agree that it does not tell us much about how to actually
construct the contents of this table or any other artificial intelligence.

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