On Mar 12, 5:13*pm, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/12/2012 2:00 PM, Ignoramus12788 wrote:





On 2012-03-12, *wrote:
The real author, George Plimpton, once put out a criticism/challenge to the
AI community saying - regarding a chess-playing computer - that, "The
machine isn't going to walk out of the hotel there and start doing
extraordinary things. It can't manage a baseball team, can't tell you what
to do with a bad marriage"

The George Plimpton who has been posting copious off-topic stuff here *(what
real person has time for that) *has been infuriating folks of all political
stripes by ignoring the real gist of arguments, resorting to insults when
all else fails, and responding with occasional non-sequitors. *All of these
are characteristics of the bots created to try to pass the Turing test and
win the Loebner prize. *The last clue to me though was his mistaking the
thread about home scale steel production as a political thread.

I agree.

That's nice.

You do, in fact, resemble Eliza. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA