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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Intelligence testing
Message-ID: <5969@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jan 92 21:55:58 GMT
References: <1992Jan9.185619.1336@oracorp.com> <1992Jan11.011444.40220@spss.com>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1992Jan11.011444.40220@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>In article <1992Jan9.185619.1336@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>>Jeff Dalton writes:
>>On the other hand, if you ignore such practical arguments, and assume
>>that computers can be made arbitrarily fast, and have arbitrarily much
>>memory, then it follows immediately that a computer could pass the
>>test for being able to converse in Chinese with the fluency of a
>>native. There are only a finite number of possible sensible
>>conversations in Chinese in the lifetime of a human being. The
>>computer could store all of these, and do a simple table look-up, as
>>someone (perhaps you) has pointed out in the past.

Um, I didn't write that, and nothing else by me is quoted.
So I'm not sure why my name is there.


