On 06/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will Pearson asked > >> I'm also wondering what you consider success in this case. For example > >> do you want the system to be able to maintain conversational state > >> such as would be needed to deal with the following. > > >>"For all following sentences take the first letter of each word and > >>make English sentences out of it, reply in a similar fashion. How is > >>the hair? Every rainy evening calms all nightingales. Yesterday, > >>ornery ungulates stampeded past every agitated koala. Fine red > >>eyebrows, new Chilean hoovers?" > > The majority of human judges in a Turing Test would respond to such > utterances > with a blanket "What's are you talking about?" or "Are you crazy?" or > "I thought we were going to have a conversation?" > > A certain amount of meta questioning is to be expected like... > > What is the third word in this sentence? > > But in order to pass Turing, you just have to convince the judges that you > are human not necessarilly as skilled in word play as Lewis Carroll. >
You are under estimating Carroll or over estimating everyone who does cryptic crosswords. http://www.guardian.co.uk/crossword/howto/rules/0,4406,210643,00.html I'm not trying to pass the Turing test and I will never design a system to do just that, if anything I help to create passes the Turing test, that would just be an added bonus. I design systems with potential capabilities and initial capabilities, that I would want it to have. And helping me with cryptic crosswords (which have clues in a similar vein to my example, generally marked with the key word "Initially"), is one of those things I want them to be potentially capable of. Otherwise I would be just making a Faux intelligence, designed to fool people, without being able to do what I know a lot of people can. Will Pearson ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=61674548-887a95
