Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 08:20:20 11/19/00
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On November 19, 2000 at 11:16:43, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >On November 19, 2000 at 11:05:41, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On November 19, 2000 at 10:25:21, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >> >>>There has been some discussion here about holding some >>>"exhibition" variations on the Turing test. >>> >>>This must be done eventually. >>>If successful, it would be epoch-making. >>> >>>I think the year 2001 is fantastically apropo, >>>promotionally speaking! >> >>I don't think any of the top computer programs can come close to passing a >>turing test. There is a well known class of positions that are easy for humans, >>but hard or impossible for computers. >> >>The programmers of the top chess programs have invested little effort to change >>this for the simple reason that such positions are relatively rare and the net >>effect of trying to deal with such positions would only serve to weaken their >>programs. >> >>I would not be surprised if the CCC membership could easily devise a test >>consisting of 10 positions, which virtually any strong human would solve 10 of >>10 and the top programs would solve 0 of 10. >> >>BTW, please ignore my other post in this thread. I unintentionally hit submit >>without writing anything. Sorry. > >You are definitely right. >That's why I said "exhibition variations on the Turing test". >They were talking about playing whole games, not special test positions. >And we know that the computers are getting close here. > >I'm talking about an "exhibition". Okay. Now I understand.
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