Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread meekerdb
On 6/13/2014 9:53 AM, John Clark wrote: That's a classic example of the sore loser syndrome, those humans with their deep human insights will get clobbered by the computer in just a few moves. And I don't want to hear about how that doesn't count because of blah blah and all the machine is

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread ghibbsa
of 'no'. But they are all cases of being 'beside' the point. Not everything is suitable to be left generic. A detailed test won't in the tray of what is. It seems to me one doesn't have to envisage very far down the path of what designing a proper test would entail to fairly sure the task itself

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread LizR
On 13 June 2014 20:44, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. But I have to wonder what we're doing wrong, because any sophisticated piece of modern software such as a modern OS or even this humble mailing list/forum software we are using is already hugely mind-bogglingly incremental. It has

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread LizR
On 13 June 2014 23:35, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:44:25AM -0700, Pierz wrote: Yes. But I have to wonder what we're doing wrong, because any sophisticated piece of modern software such as a modern OS or even this humble mailing list/forum

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread LizR
On 13 June 2014 23:35, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:44:25AM -0700, Pierz wrote: Yes. But I have to wonder what we're doing wrong, because any sophisticated piece of modern software such as a modern OS or even this humble mailing list/forum

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 01:52:01PM +1200, LizR wrote: Moore's law appears to have stopped working about 10 years ago, going by a comparison of modern home computers with old ones. That is, the processors haven't increased much in speed, but they have gained more cores, i.e. they've been

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread LizR
Oh, OK, obviously I was misinformed. I will smack Charles' bottom later. On 14 June 2014 14:27, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 01:52:01PM +1200, LizR wrote: Moore's law appears to have stopped working about 10 years ago, going by a comparison of

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 02:22:56PM +1200, LizR wrote: Oh, OK, obviously I was misinformed. I will smack Charles' bottom later. On 14 June 2014 14:27, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 01:52:01PM +1200, LizR wrote: Moore's law appears to have

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread LizR
We all have our little kinks :) On 14 June 2014 14:38, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 02:22:56PM +1200, LizR wrote: Oh, OK, obviously I was misinformed. I will smack Charles' bottom later. On 14 June 2014 14:27, Russell Standish

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread meekerdb
On 6/13/2014 6:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 June 2014 23:35, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:44:25AM -0700, Pierz wrote: Yes. But I have to wonder what we're doing wrong, because any sophisticated piece of modern

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 08:41:42PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 6:52 PM, LizR wrote: Moore's law appears to have stopped working about 10 years ago, going by a comparison of modern home computers with old ones. That is, the processors haven't increased much in speed, but they have

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-13 Thread LizR
On 14 June 2014 15:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I have a theory that no matter how fast they make the processors Microsoft will devise an operating system to slow them down. Brent The first time Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck will be when they build vacuum

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-12 Thread Kim Jones
On 12 Jun 2014, at 8:54 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: But when I asked my computer if it could manage that, it said I'm afraid I can't do that, Liz. Also it refuses to open the front door, so I'm stuck in the garage. Open the pod bay doors, HAL..HAL - open the pod bay doors,

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jun 2014, at 10:38, Kim Jones wrote: On 12 Jun 2014, at 8:54 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: But when I asked my computer if it could manage that, it said I'm afraid I can't do that, Liz. Also it refuses to open the front door, so I'm stuck in the garage. Open the pod bay

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-12 Thread John Clark
, but it's the only tool we have for judging such things. If the judge is a idiot then the Turing Test doesn't work very well, or if the subject is a genius but pretending to be a idiot you well also probably end up making the wrong judgement but such is life, you do the best you can with the tools

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jun 2014, at 19:58, meekerdb wrote: On 6/10/2014 2:04 AM, LizR wrote: Having just re-re-read my good friend Wikipaedia's article on this, I'm still not sure exactly what Turing is proposing. It looks like what you said - that both a man and a computer tries to fool the judge that

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-11 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, June 9, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: The TT has been so watered down that it doesn't prove anything except that a glorified version of ELIZA can fool some of the people some of the time. If the TT has been watered down, then the first question for me would be doesn't

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-11 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:22:35 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, June 9, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: The TT has been so watered down that it doesn't prove anything except that a glorified version of ELIZA can fool some of the people some of the time. If the

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-11 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:30:34 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:22:35 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, June 9, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: The TT has been so watered down that it doesn't prove anything except that a glorified

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-11 Thread LizR
On 12 June 2014 08:22, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, June 9, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: The TT has been so watered down that it doesn't prove anything except that a glorified version of ELIZA can fool some of the people some of the time. If the TT has been watered down,

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-10 Thread LizR
that. The diagram doesn't help much either! (Still it sounds as though Turing's measure of intelligence was whether one could appear female, I can't argue with that :-) Sterret referred to this as the Original Imitation Game Test.[57] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#cite_note

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-10 Thread meekerdb
On 6/10/2014 2:04 AM, LizR wrote: Having just re-re-read my good friend Wikipaedia's article on this, I'm still not sure exactly what Turing is proposing. It looks like what you said - that both a man and a computer tries to fool the judge that they're a woman! Which is bizarre, but so are

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-10 Thread LizR
Well, obviously it was based on Snow White! What's bizarre is actually committing suicide at all, and especially in a manner based on a children's animated film. But I suspect that it was an accident, and the apparent coincidence was just that. (What is it with gay people and Maleficent, anyway?

Fwd: Supercomputer passes the Turing test by mimicking a teenager

2014-06-09 Thread meekerdb
Original Message Can't be that hard. http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/08/supercomputer-passes-turing-test/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/08/supercomputer-passes-turing-test/?ncid=rss_truncated -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Supercomputer passes the Turing test by mimicking a teenager

2014-06-09 Thread LizR
-turing-test/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/08/supercomputer-passes-turing-test/?ncid=rss_truncated -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Fwd: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-09 Thread meekerdb
Original Message http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/09/eugene-person-human-computer-robot-chat-turing-test This story has some actual transcripts. Suppose you had to decide whether the judge was a serious professional Turing contest judge or an idiot just based

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-09 Thread LizR
wrote: Original Message http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/09/eugene- person-human-computer-robot-chat-turing-test This story has some actual transcripts. Suppose you had to decide whether the judge was a serious professional Turing contest judge or an idiot

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-09 Thread LizR
the Turing Test. On 10 June 2014 09:32, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The TT has been so watered down that it doesn't prove anything except that a glorified version of ELIZA can fool some of the people some of the time. PS Nice to see the illustration is from 2001 given the title of my thread

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-09 Thread meekerdb
asking. Some /people /couldn't pass the Turing Test. Although it's never mentioned anymore, the actual test that Turing proposed was that a man and a computer would each pretend to be a woman in a conversation with the judge. If the computer could fool the judges as well as the man could

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-09 Thread LizR
someone autistic. PPPS were the judges also computers? Just asking. Some *people *couldn't pass the Turing Test. Although it's never mentioned anymore, the actual test that Turing proposed was that a man and a computer would each pretend to be a woman in a conversation with the judge

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-09 Thread LizR
Was that true in all the versions he published? I read the second version of the test and wasn't sure if he meant the computer was trying to imitate a woman, or just fool the judge that it was a person. It seems a bit bizarre to have the judge trying to work out if it's a woman or a man

Fwd: Vicarious AI breaks CAPTCHA ‘Turing test’

2013-10-28 Thread Richard Ruquist
-- Forwarded message -- From: richard ruquist yann...@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:18 PM Subject: Vicarious AI breaks CAPTCHA ‘Turing test’ To: swi...@yahoogroups.com swi...@yahoogroups.com, yann...@gmail.com yann...@gmail.com Vicarious AI breaks CAPTCHA ‘Turing

Re: Vicarious AI breaks CAPTCHA ‘Turing test’

2013-10-28 Thread spudboy100
Richard, its a step up, but its not a Turing Test. When it fools you into not knowing who you had a conversation with, especially, if you didn't know if a Turing challenge was being performed, then I'd say, yes. -Original Message- From: Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com To: everything

Re: Vicarious AI breaks CAPTCHA ‘Turing test’

2013-10-28 Thread LizR
Grrr. This means that a computer programme is better at passing the Turing test than I am. On 29 October 2013 07:10, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Richard, its a step up, but its not a Turing Test. When it fools you into not knowing who you had a conversation with, especially, if you didn't know

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 9:26 AM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? I also agree that the notions of free will and qualia are two different

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-11 Thread meekerdb
On 9/11/2013 5:19 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: I don't think that argument holds water. I can't exclude it of course; unlike some around here I know I don't know; however it does not seem to me that this is an inevitable result of the mechanics of processing choice... of making comparisons,

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-06 Thread chris peck
it, so I'm assuming you read it: ...I'm arguing that there is no illusion of free will... Could I have been any clearer? All the best Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:47 -0700 From: meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-06 Thread John Clark
I also agree that the notions of free will and qualia are two different things. Yes, they are two very different things; one is gibberish and the other is not. *to argue that “free will”, “self-awareness” etc. are just noise [...] * Only a fool would say self-awareness is just noise, and

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-06 Thread John Clark
You cannot say you meditate on choices and make decisions and then in the next breath say that we are deterministic. Why the hell not?! Either we are programs – in which case given a knowledge of our algorithms our behavior and outcomes should be predictable based on a knowledge of some

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-06 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 9:31 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/5/2013 8:34 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread chris peck
@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:36:17 -0700 From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:41 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread John Clark
at it, and if it spends little processing power thinking about it then it probably finds object X to be rather boring. This is exactly precisely the same test that we use to determine the feelings in our fellow human beings because it is the only test known to determine the inner life of others. And don't

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
-- From: cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:36:17 -0700 *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
of it, if it attacks it then the robot is probably angry at it, and if it spends little processing power thinking about it then it probably finds object X to be rather boring. This is exactly precisely the same test that we use to determine the feelings in our fellow human beings because it is the only test known

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Coercion is by persons, not by object or logical things... So if I were shipwrecked on a desert island then no matter how much I hated it there and wanted to get back home I would have complete and absolute free will, but if I ever

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread meekerdb
On 9/5/2013 10:30 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: Coercion is by persons, not by object or logical things... So if I were shipwrecked on a desert island then no matter how much I hated it there and wanted

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/5 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Coercion is by persons, not by object or logical things... So if I were shipwrecked on a desert island then no matter how much I hated it there and wanted to get back home I would have

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chris peck Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:30 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Hi Chris I also do not KNOW whether

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Sep 2013, at 01:43, meekerdb wrote: On 9/3/2013 3:43 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: By the way the brain produces high fidelity illusions for us most of our waking lives. For example the way we perceive our sight is very different from the intermittent stream of neural signals that

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Sep 2013, at 18:23, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: indeed free does not add much to the will, except to emphasize a local freedom degrees spectrum. It doesn't even do that. Will is the set of things I want to do, It is

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:43 PM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/3/2013 3:43 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: By the way the brain produces high

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Can not comment, don't know what ASCII sequence free will means. You are merely being argumentative here. I AM NEVER ARGUMENTATIVE! You certainly do have a very clear idea of the sensations you experience

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Assuming comp it is absolutely undecidable if our universe (if it exists) is enumerable or not enumerable, I make no assumptions whatsoever regarding comp, I never touch the stuff; but if time and space are quantized (a

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/4 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Can not comment, don't know what ASCII sequence free will means. You are merely being argumentative here. I AM NEVER ARGUMENTATIVE! You certainly do have a very

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread meekerdb
On 9/4/2013 9:58 AM, John Clark wrote: If consciousness is fundamental, and I think it probably is, then after saying that consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed there is simply nothing more to say on the subject, if there were then it wouldn't be fundamental. I don't

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread meekerdb
On 9/4/2013 10:00 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:* meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:43 PM *Subject:* Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/3/2013 3:43 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: By the way the brain

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Terren Suydam
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:22 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: You're still looking at it backwards, as though there were some alternative that would be *really real* and not an illusion; as though a video camera just recording everything would capture the reall real and the would

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:22 PM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/4/2013 10:00 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: meekerdb mailto:meeke

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread meekerdb
On 9/4/2013 2:55 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Our brain's are supplying us with our reality and two people immersed in the same environment will often come away with different descriptions of that environment and will experience different realities when immersed in that environmental stream of

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:41 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/4/2013 2:55 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:24 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Free will is related to the issue of determinism -- could a very powerful computer precisely predict my future behaviour? Yes, but only if the computer

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread meekerdb
On 9/3/2013 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:24 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Free will is related to the issue of determinism -- could a very powerful computer precisely predict my future

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: If not then my actions could not be predicted because they happened for no reason, they were random. Or because of the halting problem, The halting problem involves predictability not determinism; a Turing Machine is 100%

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Sep 2013, at 17:24, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Free will is related to the issue of determinism -- could a very powerful computer precisely predict my future behaviour? Yes, but only if the computer didn't tell me what it

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: indeed free does not add much to the will, except to emphasize a local freedom degrees spectrum. It doesn't even do that. Will is the set of things I want to do, but some of those things may not be physically possible,

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
species that pass the mirror test. Clearly there is some kind of evolutionary motivation for all of this investment in what you reduce to free will is just a noise that some bipeds like to make with their mouth. Cows make a different noise, cows say Moo. Evolution did not go through all

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 2:31 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Free will is related to the issue of determinism -- could a very powerful computer precisely predict my future behaviour? Yes, but only if the computer didn't tell me what it predicted beforehand, because then the

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: I think your position is ridiculous. Evolution has clearly invested a lot of energy into “free will” Can not comment, don't know what ASCII sequence free will means. “self-awareness”, and other qualia that

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chris peck Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 8:12 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Hi Chris if in the end it is an infinitely regressing hall of mirrors, a cosmic

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
  From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:43 AM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/3/2013 9:27 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Evolution did not go through all

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread meekerdb
On 9/3/2013 9:27 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Evolution did not go through all the trouble and to expend all the energy our species expends on creating this sensation within ourselves -- whether it is actually real or an elaborate (and evolutionarily costly adaptation) to carefully create this

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Dennis Ochei
...@verizon.net *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:43 AM *Subject:* Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/3/2013 9:27 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Evolution did not go through all the trouble and to expend all the energy our species expends

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread meekerdb
On 9/3/2013 10:54 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:* meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:43 AM *Subject:* Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 9/3/2013 9:27 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Evolution did not go

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: Dennis Ochei do.infinit...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:38 PM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Of course it didn't.  In order to avoid

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:38 PM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? Of course it didn't.  In order to avoid the impression of free will evolution would have had to provide us with conscious perception

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-03 Thread meekerdb
On 9/3/2013 3:43 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: By the way the brain produces high fidelity illusions for us most of our waking lives. For example the way we perceive our sight is very different from the intermittent stream of neural signals that begin their journey from our retinas. Did you know

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-02 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Free will is related to the issue of determinism -- could a very powerful computer precisely predict my future behaviour? Yes, but only if the computer didn't tell me what it predicted beforehand, because then the computer's

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-02 Thread meekerdb
On 9/2/2013 8:24 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Free will is related to the issue of determinism -- could a very powerful computer precisely predict my future behaviour? Yes, but only if the

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-01 Thread John Clark
are not identical. Even better as a improvement over Dr. Turing's Test, would be I want you to live. Saying I want to live means nothing, its actions that count. As I mentioned before from the early 1970's deep space probes have been going into safe mode and stop collecting scientific data

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-01 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I have noticed a disturbing trend, the use of the word emergent as a excuse for not thinking. Sometimes that might be the case. Here, it's context. Free will is a human concept. That is incorrect,free will is not a human

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:21 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I have noticed a disturbing trend, the use of the word emergent as a excuse for not thinking. Sometimes that might be the case. Here, it's context.

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-31 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: do you think I am trying to pretend that I am deterministic within my own self? I think you believe you are not deterministic and also not not deterministic, which is equivalent to saying I think you believe in

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-31 Thread spudboy100
Lets jump ahead of the logic and technology, and presume a successful digital imitation of the human brain in several decades. More than the Turing Test, assuming that no programmer or developer inserts a complex program, made to fool human observers, would not a computer that says I want

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
The example of heliocentric vs geocentric views is a good one to show the limitation of the reductionist impulse. While Earth happens to be a part of a heliocentric topology, the fact that it is easy to mistake the Sun for the more 'moving object' is not in any way an endorsement of the

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-31 Thread spudboy100
Even better as a improvement over Dr. Turing's Test, would be I want you to live. If this isn't faked by a clever developer, then that qualifies as a separate, and better, living thing, then most of us humans. -Original Message- From: spudboy100 spudboy...@aol.com To: everything

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-31 Thread meekerdb
On 8/31/2013 10:12 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Lets jump ahead of the logic and technology, and presume a successful digital imitation of the human brain in several decades. More than the Turing Test, assuming that no programmer or developer inserts a complex program, made to fool human

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:21 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Even better as a improvement over Dr. Turing's Test, would be I want you to live. If this isn't faked by a clever developer, Can you clarify the distinction between fake wanting to live and real wanting to live? Or even wanting

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-30 Thread John Clark
long chain of individual events Then it's deterministic but we don't know it's deterministic. To give an example say the test subject almost lost their life when they were putting down red triangle on the road to warn on-coming traffic that their vehicle was disabled on the side of the road

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-30 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:01 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 24 Aug 2013, at 17:57, Quentin Anciaux

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-30 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: What happens to a universal Turing machine, if the tape itself is being written by some other process The same thing that happens to you when you get pushed around by the external environment. John K Clark --

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-30 Thread Chris de Morsella
: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: What happens to a universal Turing machine, if the tape itself is being written by some other process The same thing that happens to you when you get pushed around

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-30 Thread chris peck
that people who have grown up in those cultures are possessed of this 'cosmic illusion', yet their day to day phenomenology will be more or less the same as yours or mine. All the best From: cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Aug 2013, at 17:57, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/8/24 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote The computer requires a substrate in which to operate upon -- the CPU chips for example are what our computers

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-29 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote If X = Y AND Y = Z then X = Z This is also logically true, but also has no substantial bearing on how the dynamic processes by which the mind arises from the 86 billion neuron and 100 trillion connection two phase

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-29 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: It is, as always, a confusion of emergence levels. My will is an emergent concept, I have noticed a disturbing trend, the use of the word emergent as a excuse for not thinking. that has no relevance to the microscopic realm

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:49 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: It is, as always, a confusion of emergence levels. My will is an emergent concept, I have noticed a disturbing trend, the use of the word emergent as

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-29 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:49 AM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On Wed, Aug 28, 2013  Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:52 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/27/2013 3:55 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:08 AM Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: Bullshit. Axioms don't need proof, and the most fundamental axiom in all of logic is that X is Y or X is not Y. Everything else is built on top of that. And only somebody who was absolutely desperate to prove the

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