<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 31, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>Another test... suppose that I subscribed an artificial intelligence program to this list.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Why do you subscribed an artificial intelligence program to this list?<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>That's a bit easier</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Easier is the key.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">So perhaps I suggest a new test. If a computer is smart enough to get<br>admitted into Brigham Young University</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Brigham Young University is the key.</div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>you don't have to do the processing in real time as with a chat program.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You could be right about that.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I suppose that's just another emergent aspect of the human brain.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Why do suppose that's just another emergent aspect of the human brain?<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>There seems to be a supposition by some (not me) that to be<br>intelligent, consciousness is a prerequisite.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You could be right about that.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Once again, we run into another definition issue. </div></blockquote><div><br></div>Run into is the key.<br><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">Why do you sat Watson knows that 'Sunflowers' was painted by 'Van Gogh</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Why do you sat?</div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Maybe this still doesn't make total sense</div></blockquote><div><br></div>You could be right about my hovercraft being full of eels. <br><div><br></div> John K zzzzzzz 1521 buffer overflow error module 429232<br><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>