Comments on: “Um, Who is saying me won the LOEBNER PRIZE?” http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/24/um-who-is-saying-me-won-the-loebner-prize/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: andrew http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/24/um-who-is-saying-me-won-the-loebner-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 andrew Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:13:13 +0000 /?p=508#comment-1893 Dear Anonymous, Well, in link #2 above, the essay "Unconscious Thinking", I argued that the level of capability of ALICE, as you say, "a hugely complex set of if-then statements", should be considered a form of knowledge representation and intelligence, but at a lower, perhaps "unconscious" level of thinking, not a higher-level, deliberate, "conscious" one. Approaches like ALICE cannot and should not be merely dismissed as "faking it"; that's an overly simplistic take on the question, "what is intelligence". Dear Anonymous,

Well, in link #2 above, the essay “Unconscious Thinking”, I argued that the level of capability of ALICE, as you say, “a hugely complex set of if-then statements”, should be considered a form of knowledge representation and intelligence, but at a lower, perhaps “unconscious” level of thinking, not a higher-level, deliberate, “conscious” one. Approaches like ALICE cannot and should not be merely dismissed as “faking it”; that’s an overly simplistic take on the question, “what is intelligence”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://grandtextauto.org/2004/09/24/um-who-is-saying-me-won-the-loebner-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Anonymous Sat, 25 Sep 2004 02:03:08 +0000 /?p=508#comment-1877 Anyone who has ever looked at the transcripts for the Loebner contest cannot be impressed by the quality of the entrants. As the linked-to article suggests, the winning entry was little more than a hugely complex set of if-then statements. It can't learn or express novel or creative thoughts, and so it is trivial to show-up such a program. Anyone who has ever looked at the transcripts for the Loebner contest cannot be impressed by the quality of the entrants. As the linked-to article suggests, the winning entry was little more than a hugely complex set of if-then statements. It can’t learn or express novel or creative thoughts, and so it is trivial to show-up such a program.

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