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Um, a Turing Machine <u>is</u> a look up table and some memory on the
tape. Equivalent to all computatable functions, etc...<br><br>
but it's not closer to<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>> passing the Turing test than
say for example the Amazon suggestion<br>
> database. Erik<br>
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What we have learned is that the Turing test can be challenged<br>
with nothing more sophisticated than a giant lookup table.<br>
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