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Weizenbaum

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sent him on his mission. He was right to be worried. If there is one thing we have learned from the restricted Turing Test competitions for the Loebner Prize, it is that even very intelligent people who aren’t tuned in to the possibilities...
National Pub date: February 19, 2019 TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016804.txt p.1 View source release ↗
…the valley with cutesy humanoid touches, Disneyfication effects that will enchant and disarm the uninitiated. Weizenbaum’s ELIZA was the pioneer example of such superficial illusionmaking, and it was his dismay at the ease with which his la...
National Pub date: February 19, 2019 TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016804.txt p.1 View source release ↗
…of robots. . . down to the motor proteins and their ilk, with no magical ingredients thrown in along the way. Weizenbaum’s more important and defensible message was that we should not strive to create Strong AI and should be extremely cauti...
National Pub date: February 19, 2019 TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016804.txt p.1 View source release ↗
e in Turing’s almost-argument was: Only a conscious, intelligent agent could devise and control a winning strategy in the imitation game. And so it was persuasive to Turing (and others, including me, still a stalwart defender of the Turing...
National Pub date: February 19, 2019 TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016804.txt p.1 View source release ↗

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