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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: rereRe: The end of god
Message-ID: <1994Nov3.160532.10835@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Brighton, UK
References: <383kau$5q2@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> <Harmon.672.00119FE3@psyvax.psy.utexas.edu> <jqbCyo3Lv.4sG@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 16:05:32 GMT
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In article <jqbCyo3Lv.4sG@netcom.com> jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>But why are we interested in such a limited machine, other than to
>misleadingly reinforce the claim that we can "see" things that machines (note
>the amphiboly!) cannot?  There certainly are <M>s for machines that produce
>exactly the same sorts of outputs for such sentences as humans do.

As in:
Q: What is the result of 2.4925 times 3.90158?
A: ... um ... I think it is 9.72458815.

when 'A' is a computer program which has been entered in the Turing Test?
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Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

