From: Mark Walker (tap@cgocable.net)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 12:47:28 MDT
Ben:
Are you saying that you don't think this system could in principle pass the
Turing test, or that even if it does this is not sufficient to claim real
intelligence?
Mark.
>
> I know that group well; it's a small team, housed in a mansion in Israel,
> headed by my friend (sort of) Jason Hutchens. Jason was a grad student in
> perth when I was a research fellow there. he's a world-class chat bot
> builder, but in my view is not a very serious thinker about cognition,
> pattern recognition, etc. his approach is very behavioral -- he wants to
> make a series of chat bots that will sequentially emulate older and older
> human children, until he gets one that passes the Turing test. He relies
> heavily on statistical, Markov-chain-type learning methods. I like his
> stuff but unless he's undertaken a radical revision of the conceptual
> foundatiosn of his work, I think it's very unlikely he'll build a system
> with much real intelligence.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> > Of Peter Voss
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:55 AM
> > To: sl4@sysopmind.com; Michael Korns
> > Subject: Real AI
> >
> >
> > Somebody else is trying to do Real AI: http://www.a-i.com/
> >
> > It's worth looking at.
> >
> > www.optimal.org - Any and all feedback welcome: peter@optimal.org
> >
> >
>
>
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