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From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May21.175359.26377@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <1991May21.155325.17797@cs.yale.edu> mcdermott-drew@cs.yale.edu (Drew McDermott) writes:

>Perhaps the idea is that we tell the human contestant: "You will be
>disqualified as soon as you allude to anything outside the realm of
>the conversation itself," but this seems hopelessly unenforceable.
>Even the machine is bound to have encoded some reference to the
>outside world in its "game tree."  (E.g., does a reference to chess
>count as a reference to the outside world?  Presumably it's a merely
>historical fact that there is such a game, whose rules have been
>formalized in a certain way as of the late twentieth century.)

How about just "No reference to anything that's happened since 1990."
Presumably historical knowledge can be built into the machine when it's
constructed.  The only problem is dealing with things that happen afterwards.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
