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- From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.061706.21192@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:17:06 GMT
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- sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
-
- : 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!
-
- Be fair on the poor guy; he was grading a _Modern_Poetry_Class_.
- None of the usual tests like coherence, levels of organization, etc.
- would allow more than half the class a natural intelligence certificate.
-
- Besides, the A+ submission was written by the poster's husband,
- using BASIC to mechanize some selection from words and phrases _he_
- installed --- not just a full dictionary and a set of language rules ---
- and he and she selected the most successful poem, in their view,
- from the output. He was facing mostly natural intelligence.
-
- Finally, he was not able (even by teletype) to interrogate the machine,
- which was thus not a `respondent' in the Turing/Welden sense.
- So he was not even _subjected_ to the test, let alone failing it.
-
- Tim
-
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- "She was not one of the two North American poets worth more than
- a warm mouthful of industrial cherry cola, and it rankled."
- Ibid.
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