From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sat Aug 17 2002 - 10:19:37 MDT
Does schmoozing make robots clever?
http://rss.com.com/2100-1040-950237.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=newsøÖ¢
"I think the Turing test is a bad idea because it's completely fake,"
Steels said. "It's like saying you want to make a flying machine, so you
produce something that is indistinguishable from a bird. On the other
hand, an airplane achieves flight but it doesn't need to flap its wings."
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Is it wrong to measure machine intelligence with the same metric that we
use to measure our own? Should we instead be focusing on a machine's
own unique brand of intelligence and culture?
I'd imagine these same questions apply to dolphins, lower primates, etc.
-crw.
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