Well purl passed the IRC test a long time ago

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Post #6,592 by ben_tilly 8/24/01 10:25:50 AM Reply	Well purl passed the IRC test a long time ago Infobots have for several years been good enough to fool people into believing that they were just helped out by a real person. But yes, maintaining a coherent Usenet personality that looks somewhat normal would take some real work. Either that or it would act like Ashton. Speaking of which, Ashton, are you real...? :-) Cheers, Ben
Post #6,612 by drewk 8/24/01 12:43:41 PM Reply	How 'bout the magical Frenchman? This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Post #6,865 by Ashton 8/27/01 5:16:44 PM Reply	unReal.. but real-enough for Govt. Work. merely the facade Precisely as one ranks the other artifacts within the daily illusion we generate, on 'awakening'. And call those 'real'. ('You', of course would disappear were 'I' to disappear) Now as to the Real, I could only say tha Error 42: Undefined for this set. Topology error. Syntax error. Script error. Compile error. Program error. Execution error. Life systems terminated. SYSTEM HALTED

Hal is born - (DonRichards) - (18) - Aug. 21, 2001, 10:09:49 AM EDT

Halfway there. - (tseliot) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2001, 03:41:55 PM EDT

You should also look at the Cog project, then... - (neelk) - (2) - Aug. 23, 2001, 09:15:42 AM EDT

Fascinating - (deSitter) - Aug. 23, 2001, 11:51:02 AM EDT

Thanks! Cursory view looks promising... -NT - (tseliot) - Aug. 23, 2001, 02:21:45 PM EDT

Hal, shmal - (wharris2) - (3) - Aug. 22, 2001, 02:50:41 AM EDT

Why so hostile? - (DonRichards) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2001, 09:09:58 AM EDT

Just the hype - (wharris2) - (1) - Aug. 22, 2001, 09:57:27 AM EDT

But it doesn't say that - (DonRichards) - Aug. 22, 2001, 11:15:32 AM EDT

Validity of the Turing Test? - (ChrisR) - (9) - Aug. 22, 2001, 09:44:10 AM EDT

Good points - (DonRichards) - Aug. 22, 2001, 11:17:00 AM EDT

The best argument against the Turing Test is Eliza -NT - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Aug. 22, 2001, 04:17:48 PM EDT

No, the best argument against the Turing Test is Usenet - (drewk) - (4) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:05:06 PM EDT

Don't You Need Numbers? - (deSitter) - Aug. 23, 2001, 02:11:31 PM EDT

Well purl passed the IRC test a long time ago - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Aug. 24, 2001, 10:25:50 AM EDT

How 'bout the magical Frenchman? -NT - (drewk) - Aug. 24, 2001, 12:43:41 PM EDT

unReal.. but real-enough for Govt. Work. merely the facade - (Ashton) - Aug. 27, 2001, 05:16:44 PM EDT

Re: Fooling the Turing Test - (tablizer) - (1) - Aug. 22, 2001, 04:24:38 PM EDT

Yep, Turing specified - (mhuber) - Aug. 30, 2001, 05:27:33 PM EDT

It was Plato, after all, who wrote that the pinnacle of human inquiry was the listicle.
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