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>From: c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (Pontus Gagge)
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Subject: Re: Humongous table-lookup misapprehensions
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Date: 14 Feb 92 01:50:16 GMT
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zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:

>>Anyway, I seem to meet no further resistance to my original 
>>statement that
>>  a) the table-cheat is in principle possible
>>  b) it would pass the Turing Test
>>  c) it would be completely uninteresting.
>>Even the ever-combative mr. Zeleny has agreed to drop his objection.
>>
>>Is everybody happy that a DFA exists which passes a Turing Test, and
>>does so in a completely uninteresting manner? Is the Turing Test still
>>a good criterion for intelligence?

>If it quacks like a duck!
>All I would like to argue is that if it was possible to actually construct
>such a table (which it is not!) what is your objection to calling it
>intelligent???

I do not deny its intelligence *in the limited context for which it was
designed*. However, it is singularily uninteresting. To me, it is too
weak to be described by the intuitive concept of "intelligence".

BTW, in *principle* possible certainly does not mean *practically* possible.

However, I am curious whether all AI opponents are comfortable with the
existence of a DFA that *can* behave intelligently.
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