Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Sun Jun 2 21:37:24 EDT 2002

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> From: Chris Tavares [mailto:christophertavares at earthlink.net]
> "G. Willoughby" <never at mind.info> wrote in message
>
> > I belive he means a chat bot that tries to fool humans into 
> beliving its a
> > real person.
> >
> > --G. Willoughby
> >
> 
> No, that's the Turing TEST. The universal Turing Machine 
> (both were created
> by Alan Turing) is the theoretically minimal general purpose 
> computer. It's
> an interesting bit of CS theory, but not particularly useful 
> in day-to-day
> life.

Yeah - the dependence on an infinitely-long tape can be a real bugger ...

:)

Tim Delaney

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