Re[2]: Cute Fable - good point?

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> >Ten years or so ago, when I was in grad school studying AI and math, I
> >studied Prolog, and the algorithm underlying its inference engine, on
> >which I later published an article [DDJ April 1986].  That algorithm

> Interesting.  Would it be possible for me to get a copy of the article?

I'm sure a library somewhere at Harvard has back issues of Dr Dobb's
Journal.

Kyle, I know you're trying to sound "smart," but you really are coming
across as, well, a sophomore, throwing out concepts you don't have
much knowledge about.  For example, the principle that's being "debated
today," which others have identified as Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle,
is *not* a topic of hot debate as you said -- it's an accepted principle.

And your query about the Turing test -- maybe I read you wrong, but it
just looked like you were wanting to demonstrate your knowledge by
dropping these mysterious words.  I just had to groan because *everyone*
knows modern AI research doesn't focus on passing any sort of Turing test.

I have a book from the mid-80's entitled _The Policeman's Beard Is Half
Constructed_.  This book is a collection of prose and poetry, some of it
quite good.  It was all generated by a computer.

Bro. Brown mentioned ELIZA, a program that was fun to play with when I
was a snot-nose junior high school kid in 1980.  By this time, ELIZA was
already 14 years old.

The Yahoo index on Artificial Intelligence doesn't mention the Turing
test or ELIZA once.

Here's an interesting note in the AI FAQ
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/ai_general/part1/faq.html

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Richard
"Here's a nickel kid; go buy yourself a clue."	;-) ;-) ;-)