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Subject: Re: Turing tested at last?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:35:27 11/20/00

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On November 20, 2000 at 18:45:03, Andrew Dados wrote:

>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-

I don't think we are arguing about it.  I'm interested in Turing, without
dealing with the chess aspect, for a while.  I'll get back to Turing and chess
later, after I've read the article.

I think that faking either would be pretty hard.  You can't just turn the power
up or down on the computer.  Each player has a distinctive style, and specific
strengths and weaknesses.  But for all I know you are right.

bruce




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