From: Phil Goetz (goetz@zoesis.com)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 11:02:27 MST
> Kurzweil, who apparently has an impressive track record for predicting
> computer breakthroughs, in his new book ''The Age of Spiritual Machines'' (he
> is also the author of ''The Age of Intelligent Machines," 1990) predicts that
> a computer will pass the "Turing Test" (where you could have a dialogue with a
> computer about deep and meaningful subjects and not be able to tell if it is a
> person or a computer) within 20 years,
That's nothing new. Everyone in Artificial Intelligence knows that
passing the Turing Test is 20 years away. Always has been, always will be.
;)
Phil
(who does believe computers will pass the Turing Test someday, actually)
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