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- From: ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon)
- Subject: Re: The Humongous Look-up Table revisited.
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- References: <1992Dec22.211814.5623@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:29:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.211814.5623@u.washington.edu> ,
- forbis@stein.u.washington.edu (Gary Forbis) writes:
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- >I hope there is no question in anyone's mind but that there exists
- >HLTs that will pass the Turing Test. As I see it finding even one of
- >this huge class of Turing Machines is an intractable problem. I think
- >there are steps which can reduce the problem space but not be very much.
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- It all depends on what you mean by "exists". I'd say the probability of
- actual existence of such a beast either now or any time in the foreseeable
- future, is something like the probability of all the atoms in my body
- spontaneously disintegrating.
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- I don't think giving the HLT access to time, weather or usenet data would
- increase the probability of existence. The data stream would simply form
- an additional field of changing data to be looked up, unless the TM had
- some kind of actual intelligence to evaluate the data, in which case it
- wouldn't be a pure HLT. If you give the TM enough intelligence, it
- wouldn't need a look-up table at all.
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