http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/21/beware-the-jabberwack-my-son/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/21/beware-the-jabberwack-my-son/#comment-8245 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:41:35 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/09/21/beware-the-jabberwack-my-son/#comment-8245 Fun Guardian article about this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1574855,00.html
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I do recall one or two less satisfying conversations with human beings, but only one or two. Yet there were moments while speaking with George when I realised that I was, semi-consciously, assuming the presence of a human at the other end. Examining the logs from his site, Carpenter has found that people converse online with George for up to seven hours.
People act, then, as if George thinks. Does he? “We bring a lot of baggage to words like ‘thinking’,” Carpenter says. “Our understanding is very human-centric, and in any of the ways that we think about those words, it obviously doesn’t think. But if you put it another way, my program would know precisely nothing about language, had it not learned. So, to a reasonable degree, you could say that it’s building a non-human form of understanding.”
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]]> http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/21/beware-the-jabberwack-my-son/#comment-8244 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:32:47 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/09/21/beware-the-jabberwack-my-son/#comment-8244 From reading those transcripts, it seems to me that neither the program nor the judges make a lot of sense!

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