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>From: c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (Pontus Gagge)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Humongous table-lookup misapprehensions
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Date: 23 Feb 92 21:43:45 GMT
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curtis@optima.UUCP (Curtis E. Dyreson) writes:

>From article <1992Feb16.223332.23142@ida.liu.se>, by c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (Pontus Gagge):
>> 
>>>Ok, then let's just skip right to the punchline.  Since the Turing Test
>>>is too weak to serve as an operationalist definition of intelligence you
>>>would advocate ---> [insert your alternative here].  
>> 
>> Oh no! I've been found out! Ummm...I ain't got no other test.
>> Seriously, though, much as I would appreciate a non-cheatable test
>> for intelligence, I doubt that one exists. 

>This is somewhat confusing then because you are easily able to 
>identify intelligence in other human beings and are just as easily 
>able to identify a lack of intelligence in the humongous table 
>lookup.  If you have no test (doesn't even have to be foolproof) 
>for identification then how did you make the distinction?  

The fact that I personally may decide what is and what is not intelligent
does not mean that I have an *effective* test, such as the Turing one, which
matches my internal idea.

Besides, as I have remarked before, I do not really object to calling the
table-cheat an intelligence, of sorts; it is just not an *artificial* one.
Perhaps I have vacillitated on this point, if so, I apologize.
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