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Subject: Re: Turing tested at last?

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 15:45:03 11/20/00

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On November 20, 2000 at 18:25:21, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On November 20, 2000 at 03:02:48, Andrew Dados wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 2000 at 20:11:59, Bruce Moreland 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 will look this up later, but until then, does anyone know of a good definition
>>>of the Turing test?  I would prefer Turing's.
>>>
>>>Is it posted on the web someplace?
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>Btw.. a computer program passed 'composer' Turing test a few years ago. A piece
>>written by a program was performed against original Bach piece. All the audience
>>knew was that one of the two was written by a human and the other by a computer.
>>Majority of spectators decided computer's composition was genuine Bach.
>>
>>The program was sort of neural network fed with several hundreds of genuine Bach
>>to train on....
>>
>>-Andrew-
>>
>>P.S. I always suspected J.S.Bach was not a human...:)
>
>I printed out the article.  It is pretty dense stuff, and it's 26 pages long, so
>I haven't gotten through it yet.
>
>I would think that faking Bach would be pretty easy.
>
>Imagine faking latin text.  I think you could do this pretty easily, if your
>audience couldn't speak Latin.  You can make something that looks Latin enough,
>by taking Latin text, partially digesting it, and vomiting it back out.  A
>friend of mine made a program that did this, and he barfed Latin all over us.
>
>This sounds similar to the Bach thing.
>
>bruce

I didn't say chess was easier then faking music or other art. Most people will
probably think differently.
And it can be that faking a 1600 elo player is harder to do then faking a GM.

-Andrew-



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