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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Stupidity?
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Date: 11 Nov 91 12:12:51 GMT
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Mark Rosenfelder writes:
 > In article <TODD.91Nov4211052@juno.elcom.nitech.ac.jp> todd@juno.elcom.nitech.ac.jp writes:
 > >This may sound ridiculous, but has anyone ever carried out
 > >research into Artificial Stupidity?
 > 
 > One answer to this could be that no one's yet created an AI program intelligent
 > enough to be stupid.  A stupid human being can still pass a Turing test...
 > For that matter, I think AI _has_ moved from targetting behaviors that
 > were considered "intelligent" (playing chess, solving algebra problems)
 > to those that are simply human (using language, navigating around a room,
 > telling stories).  These problems are often more difficult!
   ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

Telling jokes is also tricky:-)

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  he said what? - he said "hello" -- that's a bit aggressive isn't it?


