Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.colorado.edu!not-for-mail From: Howard Brazee Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:44:41 -0700 Organization: UCB Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3AB61B58.CF536ECA@brazee.net> References: <3AACB567.A59B8497@Azonic.co.nz> <3AACE6CF.7F05484D@ieee.org> <0W8r6.178$fo5.14165@news.get2net.dk> <3AAD60F3.120F284A@ieee.org> <3AAE371A.2F9F596F@brazee.net> <98m43a$fe2$1@localhost.localdomain> <3AAFB378.AB166E8C@ieee.org> <98q3f1$bid$1@localhost.localdomain> <3AB0DFC6.FC100A64@ieee.org> <98sq19$ton$1@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: brazee.cusys.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: peabody.colorado.edu 985013081 29079 204.228.68.77 (19 Mar 2001 14:44:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@colorado.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Mar 2001 14:44:41 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67638 comp.lang.apl:29457 comp.lang.awk:17250 comp.lang.beta:12793 comp.lang.cobol:102910 comp.lang.dylan:24227 comp.lang.forth:78682 aph@redhat.invalid wrote: > Sure, you could label a teapot intelligent if you wanted but no-one > would have to agree. The magic of Turing's test is that they would > agree. But if you're writing an AI application, Turing's is probably not relevant. We don't need a computer to act like people, we have plenty of people available to do that. We need an AI program to do specific tasks with intelligence tailored to those tasks.