Posted by dorayme on 11/02/97 11:56

In article
<leo-FA705F.23150725082006@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> wrote:

> In article <pan.2006.08.26.05.15.12.195084@XmbstevensX.com>,
> mbstevens <NOXwebmasterX@XmbstevensX.com> wrote:
>
> > Eliza's a really old program that has roots dating from nearly the
> > beginning of the AI movement. There is even a version running on the Emacs
> > editor. Part of the point of Eliza is to demonstrate the ease of doing
> > certain things when you can process lists.
>
> I really believe that smart people strive to get Eliza or a reasonable
> child of Eliza functional to this day. After all, it's the perfect
> Turing test IIRC.
> And in what more perfect place could you test it than on Usenet?
> Sometimes the posts are nonsensical but keep others posting. Sometimes
> the author is brilliant in everything from gerenuks to asteroids to
> soil. I'm not a conspiracist, but I know that testing a new version of
> Super Eliza can and should be done here.
>
> less than two cents,
>
> leo

Leo, it is being tested! Luigi is Eliza. But the weirdest,
weirdest thing on earth right now is this: Luigi, a human, is
failing the damn Turing test. At least by my score.

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dorayme

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