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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Look-up tables
Message-ID: <1992Feb21.060222.6570@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 92 06:02:22 GMT
References: <1992Feb20.235802.28290@oracorp.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1992Feb20.235802.28290@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>No, no, you've got it wrong. In the definition of the table lookup
>program, a conversation is a sequence of responses alternating between
>interviewer and interviewee. The table covers *every* possible
>response that the interviewer could make (even stupid, ungrammatical,
>or nonsensical ones). But it only allows *sensible* responses for the
>interviewee.

 Then you have two cases:

 Case 1:  The table is miraculously created almost instantaneously just
	before the test is conducted.  In this case the Turing test
	amounts to a test of the table preparer rather than a test
	of the robot.

 Case 2:  The table is prepared in advance, and deals with all possible
	contingencies.  That means it has to have responses about
	Jesse Jackson being elected President, about Arafat being
	elected Prime Minister of Israel, etc.  When the actual test
	is given what actually happened will be known, so some response
	by the interviewee will be patently ridiculuous, even though
	that could not have been known when the table was prepared.
	A competent interviewer can certainly show up the robot.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


