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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Table-lookup Chinese speaker
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Date: 24 Jan 92 02:51:42 GMT
References: <1992Jan22.200714.20798@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Jan22.204734.20123@cs.yale.edu> <1992Jan23.221339.24355@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <1992Jan23.221339.24355@aisb.ed.ac.uk> 
jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

>In article <1992Jan22.204734.20123@cs.yale.edu> 
>mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott) writes:

DMD:
>>Now suppose you find a typewriter behaving this way.  Four hypotheses
>>occur to you (in increasing order of probability):
>>
>>   1. It's a miraculous-coincidence system
>>   2. It's a humongous-table system
>>   3. AI has succeeded
>>   4. There's a person on the other end
>>
>>Surely 1 and 2 are not serious contenders.  Hence although they are
>>technically counterexamples to Behavioral Strong AI ("if it behaves as
>>if it understands, then it does"), they are not really hypotheses that
>>anyone would entertain.

JD:
>If we're inclined towards (3), all we should say is that AI has
>suceeded in producing the behavior.  After all, there might be
>different kinds of computer programs, some of which understand
>and some of which don't, even if we don't go so far as table
>lookup.

Why isn't every computer program state-transition isomorphic to some table
lookup device, perhaps augmented with an update routine?

>-- jd


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