Re: Predictions for 2007

Brian Tung wrote:
Mij Adyaw wrote:
He is probably a failed AI experiment being conducted by one of the major universities computer science students.

You overestimate the state of AI NLP (natural language processing).

ELIZA, which is a very old and relatively stupid AI program that simulates a psychologist by rearranging and parroting back what people type to it, fooled a lot of people back in the old days.

That doesn't mean that ELIZA was good AI, but that most people are bad at telling the difference between a person sending them messages, and a program doing the same (the classic Turing test).

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