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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:45:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.145900.1536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, echristo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elena A Christofides) writes:
- |Well, it hasn't actually written a book, but....
- |
- |My husband wrote a program that writes poetry. This program is actually in
- |basic.
- |
- |In my modern poetry class a while ago, we had to submit up to three poems that
- |were our own original work. Both my poems got A-/B+, whereas the computers poem
- |got an A+!
- |
- |My instructor was none the wiser at the time - it was a little joke to show
- |that the computer could write a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poem as good if not better than
- |the language poets themselves!
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- Alan Turing (somebody else can provide the bio, I don't have it)
- proposed the now-famous Turing Test of artificial intelligence: put a
- person in a booth where he can communicate only by teletype. Have him
- communicate with two respondents, one a human, one a machine. If he
- can't tell which is the machine, the machine is behaving with artificial
- intelligence.
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- Based on this I propose the Welden Test of natural intelligence: put a
- person in a booth where he can communicate only by teletype. Have him
- communicate with two respondents, one a human, one a machine. If he
- can't tell which is the machine, he is behaving without natural
- intelligence.
-
- Congratulations to your instructor--he has failed the Welden Test!
-
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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