DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)

Wed Mar 7 17:54:17 CST 2007

I do not have a problem with calling a robot that passes the Turing test
intelligent, even if the code is not available to look at.  However the
twitching camera motion that David M. Wilson mentioned in his email is more
typical of the "intelligent behavior" that is claimed to emerge.  I do not
consider his twitching camera motion to be an intelligent behavior.  At
worst it is a bug, at best it is the result of unoptimized code.  Yet that
is the type of unplanned behavior that is claimed in the literature as
emergent intelligent behavior.  Looking at the code is an easy way to
determine this.

William Crolley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Koenig" <koenig.jeff at gmail.com>
To: <dprglist at dprg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)

> William Crolley Wrote:
>
> > ...to have actions that appeared intelligent to people who did not know
what the code was doing.
>
> Hmmm.  I understand your point, but does it matter what the code's
> doing if the outcome is indistiguishable from "intelligence"?
>
> I don't think the Turing Test, or any other type of intelligence test,
> requires the observer to know what the code is doing.
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