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Old 24-June-2008, 03:22 AM
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I'm starting to wonder if Bart is actually a Turing machine. He keeps repeating the same script.

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A Turing machine is a theoretical construct that forms the basis of most of the formal science of computability.

You may be thinking of the Turing test, a proposal in which machine intelligence is matched subjectively against human intelligence by means of conversation with a human judge. The Eliza program most spectacularly and amusingly fails the Turing test by simple sub-sentence rewriting rules that, over time, begin to show patterns as natural consequences of the program's limited vocabulary -- likely what you mean in comparing it to Bart's claims. It is also possible to flush Eliza out of a Turing test by speaking nonsense to it; Eliza presumes the interlocutor speaks passable natural language and blindly rewrites nonsense as more nonsense. (Wait, I think you're onto something.)
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