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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:29:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.061706.21192@nuscc.nus.sg>, tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston) writes:
- |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.
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- All points well taken. Having seen an opportunity to toss in the
- Welden Test I wasn't going to let a few nit-picky little details like
- this stop me--who knows when another occasion would arise?
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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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