[extropy-chat] Twenty Questions Twenty Questions - Theneural-net on the Internet

[Erik Starck]

At 03:45 2005-02-19 spike wrote:
>Next step is to take the 20 questions software and do
>a Turing test with informed contestants.  This software
>is good enough that it is difficult to tell if a human
>or a machine is working the other end.  Friends, we
>have survived to see computers pass Turing's criterion.

Hardly. This 20q game is a constrained environment, not that different from 
dynamically building SQL queries to a database. It's a cool technology demo 
and fascinating display of how a relatively simple program can learn from 
its' users and improve it's own capabilities, but it's not closer to 
passing the Turing test than say for example the Amazon suggestion database.


Erik