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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: O-I : other-intelligence/avian-turing-test
Date: 26 Apr 1992 20:55:09 GMT
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 Another comment re: 'o-i' : Since the work of the
 Gardners and of Penny Patterson ( Koko's tutor/programmer ),
 there has been a great deal of controversy about the linguistic
 competence of other primates.  Recently , there is a new wrinkle
 in all of this ( I heard only very brief reports about it a couple
 of years ago) : other classes of vertebrates have been added to
 the controversy : Apparently there is a group working on 'grey parrots',
 they (the parrots (-8} )  have a vocal apparatus which can closely simulate 
 "human vocal output" and they are supposed to be among the
 'smartest' of birds.  So apparently one of these birds 
 can respond to questions in an 'intelligent' way ( e.g:
 human: 'what color is the grape?' bird: 'green' etc. 
 The issue has always been the distinction between some kind of
 investigator-cued pattern-response( ELIZA-effect )
 and actual judgement mediated response from the 'other-intelligence'.

 





