From: Lyle Burkhead (LYBRHED@delphi.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 1996 - 01:43:54 MDT
I wrote,
:: The Extropians have accepted it as part of the group. No one notices
:: anything different about it -- no one has seriously raised the question of
:: whether it might not be what it purports to be, i.e. just another human.
:: In other words, this program has passed the Turing test, so far.
to which Michael Wiik replied,
> It's Chris Hind, isn't it?
I'm not telling. It's up to "Chris" to convince you, if it can, that it's
not
an AI program.
But I will say this. When I said the students used a "made-up" name,
I misspoke myself. I meant to say an *assumed* name, i.e. they used
the name of a real person who agreed to serve as front man (or woman)
for the program. In other words, just because you have met somebody
at a party, it doesn't follow that he/she is the author of the posts
attributed to him/her.
Lyle
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